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Poverty rates in Israel are among the highest - opinion

Poverty is not predetermined and gaps can be narrowed if we set our minds to it.

A PASSERBY stops to console a poor woman in Jerusalem in 2015.
 CHOOSING BETWEEN bread and milk: 47% of Jerusalemites live below the poverty line (Illustrative).

More Israelis are poor as gap widens between haves, have-nots

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Mother attempts to sell kidney as last-ditch effort in poverty

A PASSERBY stops to console a poor woman in Jerusalem in 2015.

Is it true that a third of Israel's children are poor?


About two million Israelis live below the poverty line - report

Bituach Leumi (National Insurance) published a short and overdue report from past data on poverty and inequality in Israel.

Poverty in Tel Aviv

Food insecurity and the state budget: Is the right to have food political?

Out of the total NIS 480 billion budget, not one shekel was apportioned to address food insecurity, meaning food for people in need.

AN ELDERLY man searches through a garbage can in Jerusalem in 2017.

Likud Minister Hanegbi says complaining of hunger is 'populist bulls**t'

The minister-without-portfolio's page on Wikipedia was changed temporarily to open with the words "Tzachi Hanegbi is a corrupt, opportunistic pig."

After saying that complaining of hunger is "populism" and "bullshit," Minister Tzachi Hanegbi's Wikipedia page was changed.

Poverty - How many potatoes does it take to feed Israel’s hungry children?

Yad Ezra v’Shulamit is one of the largest food distribution organizations in Israel. Yet, even with its Herculean efforts they reach only a quarter of those in need.

Army food volunteers pack food baskets

‘More than one-quarter of Israelis poor or nearly poor’ - Report

While Israel's technological and scientific breakthroughs are impressive, it is still has the highest rate of poverty of any OECD country, according to a National Insurance Institute report.

A man in Jerusalem searching through the garbage

State of Child report finds 1 in 3 children under poverty line in Israel

Opposition leader MK Isaac Herzog (Zionist Union) blamed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Likud) for the bleak report.

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man walks with his children on a street in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighbourhood September 24, 2015.

Report: 22% of Israelis lived in poverty in 2016

The figure is the highest rate in the developed world.

A homeless person in Jerusalem

Israel's poor brace for government aid shortfall

Passover food baskets distributed to Israelis in need

Fighting the poverty by the wealth redistribution inevitably brings more poverty

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NII renews larger child payments

In addition, the government decision called to establish a savings account for needy children – though this measure is not expected to take effect until 2017.

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Annual report paints grim picture of poverty in Israel

According to Central Bureau of Statistics data, in 2014 there were 776,500 children living below the poverty line.

A homeless person begs for change in Israel