ABSTRACT
As can be seen from Table 11.4, the growth of Israeli construction in the 1990s led to an increase in the number of Israeli as well as non-Israeli workers. The number of foreign workers tripled between 1994 and 1996, while the number of WBGS workers fell, representing half of all employed foreigners by 1996: this was a period marked by intensive closures. Yet after 1997, the flow of West Bank workers recovered, while the number of foreign and Israeli workers dropped. After 1998, Palestinian workers came to represent over 31 per cent of all employees in the Israeli construction sector, while foreign workers represented less than 24 per cent of the total workforce in construction (Table 11.4). While Palestinian workers did not reoccupy the central role that they had in 1992, they were clearly still in demand.
