Amendment to the Law for the Prevention of Infiltration stipulates that migrants cannot send property while they are in Israel and limits the amount they can take with them once they leave; second amendment determines that violation will be considered a crime.

By Jonathan Lis | Jun.04, 2013 | HAARETZ ISRAEL

The Knesset plenum on Monday approved two amendments to the Law for the Prevention of Infiltration barring illegal migrants from sending money or property out of Israel while they are in the country and limiting the amount they can take with them when they leave.

The amendments restrict the sum migrants may take take upon exit to no more than the sum of their minimum monthly salary, multiplied by the number of months they have been in Israel.

In extraordinary cases – such as serious illness of a close relative – special permits for transfering money will be issued by border control officials.

According to the law, a policeman or customs tax official are authorized to seize the forbidden property on its way out without a court order. Seized property that is not claimed after a year’s time will be appropriated by the Finance Ministry. The law is defined as a temporary order and is binding until January 2014.

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African migrants stand in line to receive food at Levinsky park in south Tel Aviv June 13, 2012. About 60,000 Africans have crossed into Israel across its porous border with Egypt in recent years. Photo by Reuter