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Thai workers on a tractor on the way to start their working day, early hours of October 18, 2013. (Shiraz Grinbaum/Activestills.org)

Run out of town for teaching farm workers their rights

Labor advocates set out to explain to Thai agricultural workers what rights they have in Israel. Instead, they are intimidated and chased away by the workers’ employers. By Angie Hsu In the rush before leaving Tel Aviv for the Arava Desert Friday morning, I ran into the bathroom and grabbed two bottles of sunscreen. It…

By +972 Magazine March 11, 2017

Thai workers sorting crates of pomegranates, Sde Nitzan, October 18, 2013. (photo: Shiraz Grinbaum/Activestills.org)

Home Field: Visiting agricultural workers in Israel, part 4

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…

By Activestills March 18, 2014