Dana Weiler-Polak

Thousands turn out at Tel Aviv's Gan Meir yesterday to call on PM to grant residency to 400 migrant workers' children slated for deportation.

Interior minister and PM's wife meet a day after Sara sends personal letter to Yishai urging him to let 400 migrant worker's children stay in Israel.

Eli Yishai is considering offering about $1,000 per family to illegal foreign workers who choose to depart Israel.

The Population and Immigration Authority begins registering families of illegal residents who want their children to receive permanent residency status.

Organization on Holocaust survivors sends letter to prime minister in wake of cabinet decision to deport 400 children.

Government to begin registering hundreds illegal residents who will ask cabinet for permission to remain in Israel.

Defense Minister Ehud Barak publicly requests that 400 children of migrant workers set for deportation be allowed to stay in Israel.

An absence of forms in Arabic and a shortage of Arabic-speaking staff are among some of the gaps noted in Sikkuy study.

Defense minister suggests that cabinet decision to deport children be deferred, and that deportations only be applied in future cases.

Movement's leader has begun asking member kibbutzim whether they would be willing to take in children not eligible for legal status.

Over 1,200 children were up for deportation earlier this year, of which 800 children met the criteria and will be granted approval to remain in Israel.

According to inter-ministerial committee's recommendation, children of migrant workers must fit 5 criteria in order to remain in Israel; 400 do not.

Staff Sgt. Oren Cohen, who was in killed last Monday's Sikorsky helicopter crash in Romania, along with five of his Israeli colleagues and a Romanian liaison officer, was laid to rest Friday at the Rehovot military cemetery.

The man, 48, immigrated to Israel in 1999 , after being convicted in Hungary and sentenced to four years in prison for the sexual abuse of two 14-year-old girls.

Rescue crews located the bodies of six Israeli airmen and one Romanian officer at the site of Monday's crash of an Israeli military helicopter in central Romania.

Welfare workers in Kfar Yona on Sunday defended their professional decisions and conduct regarding the Ben Dror family.

Cabinet to discuss legal status of migrant workers' children; 'Israel has no moral right to deport a single child,' says Trade Minister Ben-Eliezer.

Itai Ben Dror told justices he killed his three children in order to 'give them peace and quiet from their mother.'

Cabinet set to discuss granting legal status to children of migrant workers.

Itai Ben Dror was released from psychiatric hospital two months ago.

A Bnei Brak resident who wanted to bury her dead mother in the city's cemetery was surprised to learn that the National Insurance Institute does not cover the costs for locals to be buried there.

Aid groups argue there is no way parents can meet requirements allowing children to stay in Israel.