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?


Why does a cup of coffee in an Israeli hospital cost NIS 19?

Coffee, sandwiches, or pastries sold in hospital cafeterias are significantly more expensive than in other locations. The Knesset Health Committee will begin monitoring these prices.

 Shaare Zedek hospital.

Strauss, Cola, and Tnuva: Will Israel's food prices keep rising and why? - interview

While Eizenberg cautioned that it is very hard to know what may happen in the future, he predicts that the likely scenario is that prices will continue to rise in the next few months.

A Tnuva truck enters the company's logistic centre in the southern town of Kiryat Malachi, Israel May 22, 2014.

Dairy prices to jump 4.48% from May 1 for price-controlled products

Among product prices impacted, the price of one liter of bagged 3% milk will go from NIS 5.94 to NIS 6.21 and one carton of 1% milk will rise from NIS 6.41 to NIS 6.7.

Milk, with a sign reading 'the milk is limited to 2 cartons per customer,' is seen in a Jerusalem supermarket on March 22, 2023

October 7 led to severe loss of agricultural output and growing number of food-insecure Israelis

The outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war has led to an existential crisis for Israeli farmers, as well as for customers and evacuees trying to make ends meet in time for the holiday.

 Israelis sorting food and produce with Leket Israel.

Tiv Ta’am to lower prices before Passover


Black stickers: The government's new plan to shame companies raising prices during war

Economy Minister Nir Barkat called on the Israeli public to boycott Israeli food company Osem for refusing to cooperate with the government over food price rises.

 Economy Minister Nir Barkat speaks the Jerusalem Post Annual Conference. June 6, 2023

 Introducing exciting additions to the shelf and the new "Ninja"

From gourmet cereals to convenient beverage boxes, here's everything new on the shelf.

 The new Ninja Speedy, model ON403 for cooking fast meals

Strauss Group to hike prices, lay off 150 workers

The company says that the decision to raise prices follows large rises in prices of raw materials in the past year.

 BAMBA COMING off the production line at a Strauss plant in Sderot.

December 2023 Consumer Price Index records a 0.1% decrease from November

Noteworthy declines were recorded in fresh fruits and culture and entertainment (2.2%); clothing and footwear (1.8%), and furniture and household equipment (0.7%).

 An illustrative image of a graph going down.

From shelves to labs: Israeli food execs talk trends and challenges in 2024

Israeli food sector executives emphasize resilience, job security, and innovative strategies amid ongoing geopolitical challenges.

FRESH PRODUCE is stacked in a store in Jerusalem’s Mahaneh Yehuda market