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On June 30th, 2022, the day the Knesset (Israeli Parliament) was dissolved, the Minister of the Interior published a new regulation that will come into effect on October 1, 2022 (hereinafter: “the regulation”). According to the regulation, asylum seekers that hold the 2A5 visas are restricted to work in only four types of jobs: hotels, construction, agriculture and institutional nursing. Those who worked at the restaurant until June 2022 will be allowed to continue their work. Any asylum seeker who does not fall into those permissible forms of employment will have to look for a job located outside the 17 cities listed in the regulation. These 17 cities are where most asylum seekers in Israel live. On July 21, 2022, it was announced that the same regulation will also apply to Ukrainian refugees, who were only recently allowed to work, starting August 1, 2022. Many of the faults reviewed below apply to them as well.
