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Becky Sullivan

Israel's war with Hamas disrupts Palestinian workers and Israeli employers alike

An unfinished apartment construction site in Ramat Gan, Israel, on Nov. 2, 2023. Work has stopped because Israel has suspended work permits for Palestinians from the occupied West Bank. (Tanya Habjouqa / NOOR for NPR)

TEL AVIV, Israel — The construction site, like so many others in Israel, is frozen in time.

Just outside of downtown Tel Aviv, the half-built apartment building has been empty for almost a month: conduits of wires hanging loose from the ceiling, piles of unused rebar rusting, water collecting in dirt around the foundation.

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