13th Oct 2023: Thai deaths in Hamas massacre spotlight poor agricultural migrant workers from Asia who toil in Israel’s fields
Like his father Chumporn and dozens of other able-bodied men from their village in northeast Thailand, Manee Jirachart moved to Israel in search of work, dreaming of a better life.
Jobs were hard to come by within the his rural community so when Manee found a cleaning position at a government office in southern Israel near the Gaza it seemed like a real opportunity.