Bedouin? They come first in any distribution of gas masks!

but we will IF we can! unfortunately we can't right now as there are not even enough masks for legal citizens! you can also buy masks yourselves, come on! all you need to do is look!

..obviously,look after your own first ahead of illegal immigrants.

The Home Front Command will in this case offer instructions and aid in a variety of languages. How nice, when you are dying from a chemical attack, to hear how much Israel cares about you.

If the illegal migrants are so fearfull perhaps they should leave Israel

That the whole off Israel including Internationals don't have Chemical Warfare Protection equipment Is a sign of Unpredictability and the Average Person ought learn more.

The article is about foreigners that are legally working here. I find the gov't position very disturbing. My mother has a LEGAL caregiver from India, and I was told that our wonderful and dedicated worker cannot receive a mask until it is ordered by Home Front Command. . I will have to bring her to the station too. This is gonna be a difficult situation for all involved. I'll end up giving her mine...just for her own peace of mind.....Anyone who knows anything, knows that the masks alone are not going to provide very much protection at all. Known and accepted pacifier for the masses.

How about the illegal migrants go home and then they won't need any gas masks? The Arabs in Judea and Samaria better hope their friends don't send them any chemical weapons

I agree wholeheartedly, and the best protection for them is quite simple, send them back to where they came from, immediately.....how dare these illegals make more demands on our State.......Am Yisroel Chai

Israel being a country that values human lives, surely you'll be provided one. question is, will you also help us out when worst comes to worst ???!!! or you stayed so long and now a chutzpa with demands

They are sold online and in stores. Secondly, i am not sure what is included in the kit, but a gas mask will not necessarily save your life in the case of a sarin gas attack. Sarin can also kill you just through contact with the skin, it will just take a few minutes longer.

As of now legal tourists are not being issued protection. If needed, I feel confident it will come. The absolute, total CHUTZPAH of those who came illegally to Israel to now DEMAND they get gas masks. Israelis sign for them and are responsible for them. My late father had one and years after he died, when the state was collecting them, they rang the doorbell of what had been his home. I was able to give it back. What will become of masks issued to illegals. --they will vanish forever from the Israeli supply. They came to Israel, now leave Israel--no one is holding them hostage.

You know, you can get those kits privately. It's something in the area of NIS 400. Other than that, when the state has taken care of its citizens and permanent residents by handing out subsidized gas masks, then if there are any left the migrants should get them. But not a minute before that.

The illegal Africans add a touch of humor to this whole spectacle. Nothing it seems, is able to teach us anything.

They are illegals then if they are afraid they can GO HOME !

Folks need to buy their own gas masks and keep them on hand. That does the state a favor and ensures the owners' access to a well fitting mask.

These pests are illegals!!!!! Deport them! Don't waste our taxes on these savages thirworlders!!! They come from the jungle were they didn't water electricity or nothing!!! You want to spend millions on these savages?

They came here,even though they knew that Israel is on balance of conflict with its neighboors.Basically they have a different reason other then seeking asylum..Now they want benefits from the country ? Israel is obligated to protect its own citizens first thing first ...Who cares about the monkeys, when they atack people in telaviv and rape young girls on the streets , they dont fear the jail but when it comes to war they scared.Probably Israel should give them death penalty when they doing something wrong, then they will understand not to jump around

Other than the issue of quantity, all citizens must get their kit the are legally entitled to there is cost. Fact is if your a foreign worker here LEGALLY it gives you some rights but not the same rights as citizens in this case they don't have the right to a gas mask kit ( this guy is Eritrean so probably here illegally anyway ); They are not cheap but I have seen stores selling masks privately so if the workers want something so bad thengo buy a mask privately. Best thing to do though for everybody is if in the unlikely event Assad fires missie at Israel with or without chemical warheads then take cover

Come on Livni, Labor, Meretz what's wrong with you all. I would have thought that by now you would have been telling us for the sake of the peace process we must give priority to Palestinians give them the kits before we give to Israelis.

even foreign Jewish students are not eligible for masks. I've tried for 3 years. Had to source my own through private sales, and I have three kids.

what about tourists and business people, who don't get masks either. Should they also all go home and never come back?

wonder how you would react if you would be in his situation!

Alot of comments are fascistic.Alot of the Foreignors do good work some arno so hot but some Israelis aren't great either .

You could of course just pretend that they don't exist like you usually do, and then you could all go home with a nice clean conscience and feel really pleased with yourselves. Get out of your rose-tinted dream world! These people are human beings - "legal" or not. And they are here at this point in time, for whatever reason. So they need protection, just like your own children do.