Poverty rate in israel

NGOs see dramatic increase in financial assistance requests from young people

"The sharp rise we are seeing in the number of aid recipients ahead of Passover is a clear and stark expression of the deepening distress in Israeli society," Pitchon Lev CEO Eli Cohen said.

 IFCJ PRESIDENT Yael Eckstein (center) visits a shelter in Kiryat Shmona. ‘I think it’s a very incorrect assumption to feel or think that we, in the rest of Israel, are not connected to what’s happening there.’
 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

 Israeli money bills.

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

Israeli children wearing face masks make their way to school in Tzfat on their first day back to classes on November 1, 2020

Poverty still rampant among Israeli children - report


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

"The poverty index does not measure poverty, it harms the real poor."

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

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.

Are Israelis going hungry?

Two million Israelis have reported loss of income due to the crisis, and about 510,000 citizens have not yet returned to the labor market since the beginning of the corona crisis.

A BEGGAR in Jerusalem. 'People are falling very quickly and they are looking for help anywhere they can find it,’ says Leket’s founder and chairman Joseph Gitler.

Sabina Alkire and the Boris Mints Institute Prize

Alkire was recognized for her exceptional contribution to the understanding of the dynamics and implications of poverty.

PROF. SABINA ALKIRE, director of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative at Oxford University.

‘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

Detroit teens volunteer to fight poverty in Israel

“There are so many people that need help.”

Delegation participants from the Detroit-based Sue & Alan Jay Kaufman Family Teen Mission to Israel help pack boxes of food at the Pitchon Lev aid center on Tuesday, July 10

Major gap in nonprofit welfare funding between haredim and Arab Israelis

43,000 nonprofits currently help provide services to people on welfare, although only about 20,000 appear to be active.

AMONG NONPROFIT organizations in Israel, 23% provide assistance to the haredi sector, compared to 7% for Israeli Arabs.

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

Leket Israel buys land to grow food for the needy

The land is predicted to grow enough produce to feed about 2,700 people daily.

Volunteers work the fields in Binyamina

Study: 'Israel's economic growth unsustainable, poverty rate highest in OECD'

Taub Center cites government’s failure to reduce poverty through taxes and welfare system.

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