Migrants and Refugees Department is acting to secure the refugees and asylum seekers’ right to health and is promoting the recognition of refugees as residents for the purpose of social rights entitlements. 

The Amendment to the Entry into Israel and Nationality Law has negatively impacted tens of thousands of couples, leaving one person in the couple with no civil status and no social rights.

In February 2001 ended a broad struggle led by Physicians for Human Rights association to promote the rights of children of migrants. After many months of lobbying in various Knesset committees and correspondences with government officials, the government recognized, on a partial basis, the rights of non-resident children to health care and determined a special arrangement to insure non-resident children via Me'uhedet Sick Fund.

In 1991 “The Foreign Workers Law, 1991” was enacted and set forth the employment conditions of foreign workers in Israel. Among other things, the law requires employers of foreign workers to provide foreign workers with private medical insurance at the employer’s expense.