The killing of Israeli soldier of Filipino origin, Cedric Green, renewed the controversy over the rights of foreign workers in Israel, according to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. The newspaper reviewed the aspects of that controversy regarding those who were not Jewish but were killed in a war launched by a government that hardly recognized them.
Cedric (23 years old) had to serve in the army to obtain citizenship, and his murder gave his parents the opportunity to obtain it as well, after Benjamin Netanyahu’s government decided to “give it to them in gratitude,” the newspaper said.