Food prices

Food shortages and rising costs: UN agency warns of global food crisis if Hormuz remains blocked

The closure of the narrow waterway, which normally carries around a fifth of global Liquified Natural Gas supplies, will have a rippling impact beyond the Middle East, Maximo Torero warned.

A map showing the Strait of Hormuz is seen in this illustration taken June 22, 2025.
UNOX CASA at Nyga Chef FOR HOME.

How to host perfectly at home – without working hard in the kitchen

An illustration of a mother feeding a baby a bottle of formula.

Baby food aid requests rose 25% in 2025, infant formula prices climb, Social Bank reports

One of Leket Israel’s Logistics Centers: An economic endeavor

The food Israel wastes each year could feed a country, so why doesn’t it?


Kosher pantries call for emergency Passover funding

The Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, the largest distributor of free kosher-for-Passover food in America, put out an emergency Passover fundraising call to raise $2.5 million.

 A City Harvest truck delivers pallets of kosher food to Masbia of Boro Park as part of their annual Passover Food Drive, April 11, 2022.

Ukraine war-related inflation may drive protests and riots – World Bank

The bank last month warned the impacts could be particularly harsh in the Middle East and North Africa, where countries like Egypt import up to 80% of their wheat from Ukraine and Russia.

 Anti-government protesters throw molotov cocktails during clashes with police, outside Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) in Hong Kong, China November 17, 2019.

Israel is 6th-most expensive country in the world for groceries

According to the research, the average cost of standard groceries in Israel totals $28.45 per person a week – a figure higher than that of the US, Denmark or Canada.

 A RAMI LEVY supermarket in Jerusalem last week.

NSO affair mountainous scandal gets much smaller - opinion

So far, preliminary examination of the evidence offered by Ganon in his Calcalist articles is far from being conclusive.

 A man walks past the logo of Israeli cyber firm NSO Group at one of its branches in the Arava Desert, southern Israel July 22, 2021

Osem cancels plan to increase product prices

Osem intended on raising the prices of their products by five percent.

 Osem products at a shop in Tel Aviv.

Pasta, the poor and giving - opinion

I often encourage people when making a budget to add a line item, charity. This way they are always putting money on the side in order to give.

pasta shells with chicken and vehetables

Could price hikes and cost of living turn Israel against Bennett?

POLITICAL AFFAIRS: Eleven years after the July 2011 socioeconomic protests, disgruntled consumers are headed back to the streets.

 A GROCER unpacks bags of Osem noodles in a Tel Aviv market.

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett called to lead cabinet dedicated to stop rise in prices

A special Knesset meeting took place after a recent wave in food and household prices that upset many.

 A plenum session in the assembly hall of the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, February 2, 2022.

Gradually increasing prices could lead to ruin for lower-income Israelis - analysis

Israel has one of the world’s highest income wage gaps, with the bottom 50% of the nation making 19 times less than the top 10%.

A woman shops at a supermarket in Jerusalem June 19, 2016.

Osem postpones price increase as Israelis lament rising costs

'Now is the time to say something; to get everyone together and scream about it.'

Packages of Bamba - made by Osem - on a shelf in a Jerusalem grocery store on December 29, 2021.