Following the State of the Child report released on Tuesday by the National
Council for the Child, which revealed an increase in the percentage of Israeli
children living under the poverty line, local NGOs combating this issue say they
are not surprised.
This week revealed a variety of alarming facts
concerning children in Israel. Prior to Tuesday’s report, the organization Latet
also published data showing that half of the minors from needy families
currently are forced to work to help support their family. Ten percent of these
children have also begged for money in the streets in 2012, and 27 percent of
Israeli minors have gone entire days without food in the past
year.
“These figures are surprising for the public, but not for us,”
Menashe Cohen, director of the NGO Hom, told The Jerusalem Post on
Wednesday.
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