India's job crisis drives workers to Israeli construction sites amid controversial labor agreements, writes Jyoti Thakur.
As India’s nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi consecrated a $217 million Hindu temple, built on the ruins of the demolished Babri mosque in the northern city of Ayodhya, thousands of unemployed men queued in the bone-chilling January cold in nearby Lucknow in the hope of securing employment in Israel.
For Brijesh Prajapati, getting work in Israel was like a second bite of the cherry at providing a better life for his family.
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