Israel might allow Palestinian workers back in from the West Bank - with electronic bracelets

Palestinian media is reporting that  Israel has worked out a deal with the Palestinian Authority so West Bank workers who have nearly all been unemployed from their jobs in Israel - with severe limitations.

Ultrapal reports that PA minister Hussein Al-Sheikh, head of the General Authority for Civil Affairs, met recently with IDF COGAT head Ghassan Alyan to discuss arrangements to allow the gradual return of about 100,000 Palestinian workers to the Israeli labor market within strict security requirements. 

Security procedures that Israel plans to implement, according to this article, include:

* Worker signatures one entry and exit from Israel

* Electronic bracelets with GPS to allow Israel to know where they are at all times

* Israel provides buses from the checkpoints into Israel and to return them at the end of the every day

* No workers may stay overnight

* No working in residential areas. Construction work will be limited to new construction where no one lives.

According to the article, as many as 10,000 workers may start working as early as Monday.

A significant number of workers in Israel have always been unregistered, sneaking in over or through the security barrier. I would hope that extra security measures would be put into place to minimize or stop that from happening. 

The lack of workers has hurt Israel's economy, and the lack of work has devastated the Palestinian economy. 

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