Sri Lanka temporarily halts sending workers to Israel

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Colombo, June 17 (Daily Mirror) - The Sri Lankan government has temporarily suspended sending workers to Israel due to the current security situation in the region, following an announcement by Israel’s Population and Immigration Authority (PIBA).

According to PIBA, Israel’s international airports are currently not operating at full capacity due to the escalating situation between Israel and Iran. As a result, all employment deployments from Sri Lanka to Israel have been put on hold.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Employment, and Tourism stated that this suspension affects both newly selected job seekers as well as those who had returned to Sri Lanka expecting to re-enter Israel for work.

In line with Section 39 (1)(b) of the Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment (SLBFE) Act No. 21 of 1985, the SLBFE will not carry out new registrations for employment in Israel until further notice.

Authorities assured that employment deployments will resume once clearance is received from PIBA regarding the situation.

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Jeeves Tuesday, 17 June 2025 09:43 PM

Wise move by government. Wiser still, would be to seek employment elsewhere in a less volatile region.

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sss Tuesday, 17 June 2025 09:53 PM

So then how can our non productive professionals (educated free of charge) get dollars for luxuries like cars imported duty free. Unfortunately NPP government followed the tradition, by further increasing their huge rupee salaries. Now they want luxuries and dollars to import them. It is blue collar workers like housemaids who sacrifice their souls abroad to earn the dollars for them. NPP government please launch studies on how to make higher education contribute to the economy. In its about 100 years of existence it has contributed nothing to the economy and on the contrary it has become a burden to the poor blue collar workers who should our subsistence economy. And also .limit the importation of luxuries because SL is bankrupt

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Pusa Tuesday, 17 June 2025 11:33 PM

You are expecting the NPeePee gov to launch a study ? LOL Better to ask them to launch a Monkey Census...

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I'm a big fan of Daisy Achchi Wednesday, 18 June 2025 06:30 AM

Don't stop give the jobs to the extended Rajapaksa family members, finally they could be contributing to the sri lankan economy bringing in foreign currency instead of taking it away from the national coffers.

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