Israeli Interior Minister Moshe Arbel called for canceling the ban on entry of Palestinian workers from the West Bank, warning of rising residential real estate prices and reliance on illegal labor.

He said in a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, reported by Haaretz newspaper, that the ban on entry of Palestinian workers led to a significant delay in the delivery of new apartments.

In his letter, he warned that this ban caused great economic harm to real estate buyers and contractors alike. At the same time, he warned of fears of the collapse of companies in the Israeli construction sector.

It is noteworthy that before the Al-Aqsa flood operation on October 7, Israel relied on approximately 200,000 Palestinian workers who entered it daily from the West Bank to work.

Palestinian workers represented the largest percentage of the total number of workers in the construction sector in Israel.