Sara Netanyahu, the wife of Israel's prime minister, has joined in the debate on the future of 400 children of foreign workers who will have to leave Israel with their families over the next couple of weeks.
The cabinet decided three weeks ago to allow around 800 children to remain in Israel.
According to the new guidelines, children who have started school, who are about to this year or who have lived in Israel for at least five years and speak Hebrew, will be allowed to stay if both their parents entered legally.
Such conditions apply to about two-thirds of the 1200 children of foreign workers currently living in Israel. The remainder have been given 30 days to leave of their own free will.
