Chinese people in Israel

[2] Another immigrant with a similar background is Sara Imas, the daughter of a German Jewish father and Jiangsu mother born and raised in Shanghai.

After having received Israeli citizenship and living in Israel for ten years, she returned to Shanghai as the representative of a diamond company.

[11] As Chinese workers have no community in the country to help them, if they have visa problems, are not trained for the job for which they were brought to Israel, or find themselves with an unscrupulous employer, they may be deported.

[12] According to an Israeli State Comptroller report in 1998, an employer's failure to pay the requisite fees led to the arrest of his workers as a penalty.

Interior Minister Avraham Poraz stated in response to a letter: "We're not interested in cultivating a local Chinese leadership.

[14] While discrimination against Chinese people in Israel is not a common phenomenon, in 2001, then-labor and social affairs minister Shlomo Benizri said: "I just don't understand why a restaurant needs a slant-eye to serve me my meal",[15] a comment which was called racist in the Israeli press.

[12] In 2003, The Guardian claimed that Chinese workers at an unspecified company had been required to agree not to have sex with or marry Israeli women, including prostitutes, as a condition of getting a job.