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  • 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
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    (Neil Pollick)
    Israel & The Middle East section icon
    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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