Israel said it will receive Moroccan construction and nursing workers as part of a pilot project, announced Wednesday by Israeli Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked, according to the Jerusalem Post.
Shaked spoke to the press after she held talks these last two days with Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita as well as her Moroccan counterpart, Interior Minister Abdelouafi Laftit.
The Jewish state aims to improve the pace of the construction sector and reduce the current shortage in the health sector, mainly in caregivers, specified the same source.
Chairman of the Construction and Wood Workers Union within Israel’s Histadrut labor federation, Yitzhak Moyal, said, “we’re lacking about 40,000 workers, in 10 different professions.”
“ We’re hoping to receive about 15,000 Moroccan construction workers, in a few batches. This could really improve the pace of construction in Israel,” he added, according to the same source.
Israel’s Chairman of construction further stated that his country will start receiving Moroccan workers by 2023.
They would earn higher salaries in Israel, with an average annual salary of $11,400, added the same source.
This cooperation came after both countries strengthened diplomatic ties in December 2020, following the trilateral agreement involving the US.
Israel’s Interior Minister also renewed her country’s support of Morocco’s autonomy plan on Western Sahara.
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