Kathmandu, May 20 -- The government has said it cannot immediately send 1,153 Nepali workers who were excluded from the previous lucky draw selection process for jobs at long-term care centres in Israel, despite having qualified for recruitment.

Issuing a press statement on Tuesday, the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security urged the excluded candidates to participate again in future recruitment processes.

According to the ministry, Nepali workers have been deployed to institutional long-term care facilities in Israel as auxiliary caregivers under a bilateral labour agreement signed between Nepal and Israel in 2020.

In the second phase of recruitment, Israel selected 2,112 workers through a lucky draw in August 2024 from a...