How many migrants in Israel?

There are 227 000 migrants who are subdivided as follows:

1. About 91,000 foreigners who arrived as tourists through Ben Gurion Airport and overstayed their legal tourist visa. 60% of them are from the Former Soviet Union (FSU).

2. About 77,000 migrant workers who hold a legal work permit for agriculture, care-giving or construction. These are workers who were brought to Israel legally and will lose their legal status when their employers will no longer want them, or when their expiration date elapses as defined by Israeli law, which is after five years and three month of work. 16,000 migrant workers have already lost their legal status but have not yet been detained and deported and therefore reside in Israel with no legal status. These workers arrive mainly from Thailand, the Philippines, Nepal, India, Sri Lanka and China.

3. About 43,000 asylum seekers entered Israel through the Egyptian border during the last decade. 92% of them are from Eritrea Sudan.

The vast majority of these migrants are Christians.