Kathmandu, July 16 -- The Israeli government has sent the ranking list of 1,115 Nepali workers selected for caregiver jobs at long-term care facilities to Nepal's Department of Foreign Employment.

The selected workers include 75 percent men and 25 percent women. Based on the list, the department will now begin the process of sending them to Israel.

Israel had opened applications for 2,300 caregiver positions, but fewer than half of the applicants made it through the selection process after many failed to pass the required English language test.

Israel's Population and Immigration Authority (PIBA) prepared the ranking list through a lottery system. The Department of Foreign Employment had forwarded the documents of 1,140 candidates to P...