In a series of posts based on field visits and meetings with migrant workers in Israel, Noa Shauer and Shiraz Grinbaum highlight the conditions, hardships and exploitation of foreign workers. In part 4, workers go on strike after being made to use pesticides without protection, are forced to live in deplorable conditions and have their salaries withheld.
Text by Noa Shauer, Kav LaOved Coordinator for Agricultural Workers and Migrant Housecleaners
All photos by Shiraz Grinbaum, Activestills.org
Published in “+972 Magazine” on March 18, 2014