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  • Cydrick Garin's family at his funeral at the Kiryat Shaul Cemetery in Tel Aviv on Jan. 25, 2024
    Cydrick Garin's family at his funeral at the Kiryat Shaul Cemetery in Tel Aviv on Jan. 25, 2024
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    ‘I Love This Country and Want to Protect the People’

    The son of Filipino immigrants, Cydrick Garin grew up in Israel as a ‘temporary resident.’ He worked security for the prime minister, rose through the ranks of the IDF, and became an Israeli citizen before being killed in combat in Gaza.

    byHillel Kuttler
  • Rose Fostanes, a Filipina migrant caregiver living in Israel, celebrates with friends and family in a bar in South Tel Aviv, after she won in the Israeli X-Factor Television show singing contest, in the early hours of January 15, 2014. (OREN ZIV/AFP/Getty Images)
    Rose Fostanes, a Filipina migrant caregiver living in Israel, celebrates with friends and family in a bar in South Tel Aviv, after she won in the Israeli X-Factor Television show singing contest, in the early hours of January 15, 2014. (OREN ZIV/AFP/Getty Images)
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    Filipinos in Israel Cheer Unlikely ‘X-Factor’ Win

    Rose Fostanes, a 47-year-old Filipino caregiver, took the show by storm

    byDaniella Cheslow
  • (Neil Pollick)
    (Neil Pollick)
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    Unwelcome

    The 500 infant children of migrant workers currently facing deportation expose the unsettled nature of Israel’s immigration policy for foreign caregivers

    byMya Guarnieri
  • Foreign workers reading about new immigration policies in Tel Aviv last summer.(Yehuda Raizner/AFP/Getty Images)
    Foreign workers reading about new immigration policies in Tel Aviv last summer.(Yehuda Raizner/AFP/Getty Images)
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    Deployed

    Filipino migrant workers feel a strong religious connection to Israel, where thousands of them work, as the birthplace of Jesus. But a recent wave of deportations is threatening that bond.

    byMya Guarnieri
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