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.
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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?


Israel's gas prices to drop NIS 1.25 in August, Liberman announces

Furthermore, the 16% rise in electricity prices that was announced on Wednesday will instead be 8.6%, the finance minister said.

 Illustration image of a man fueling his car at a gas station, in Jerusalem, on June 28, 2022.

Rami Levy to open discount department store network

Exterior of Rami Levy HaShikma Marketing supermarket in Givat Shaul, Jerusalem, Israel.

Lapid should cut down the cost of living in Israel - editorial

As we approach another election, it seems increasingly apparent that the cost of living has become a major campaign issue, if not the most important one.

 Prime Minister Yair Lapid at Sunday's cabinet meeting, July 17, 2022.

Econ Ministry director-general: Prices will drop due to reforms

Dr. Ron Malka states that other American and European retail chains besides Carrefour, which is French, are poised to enter the Israeli market.

Illustrative photo of Israeli money

What is Israel's next election about? The cost of living - comment

The reason the current state won't change is that the government, the retailers, the hoteliers, and the restauranteurs can get away with it.

 Milk for sale at the Rami Levy supermarket in Jerusalem on July 17, 2022.

Israel, Kazakhstan host meeting on trade and economic cooperation

Israeli Tourism Minister Yoel Razvozov discussed the possibility of importing wheat and flour to Israel, among other economic cooperation opportunities.

 The 9th meeting of the Israel-Kazakhstan Joint Commission on Trade and Economic Cooperation took place earlier today (Tuesday, July 12th, 2022) in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan.

Import reform plus competition could hurt Israeli manufacturers - opinion

A real opening of the Israeli market to international competition could adversely impact manufacturers’ profits. Here's how:

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Israel Elections: Who cares about Israeli voters? - opinion

Let’s take stock of where we – those who will be voting once again on November 1st – stand in relation to what we require as against that which we receive.

 ISRAELIS SET UP tents last month on Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv, to protest against the soaring housing prices in Israel and social inequalities.

Netanyahu's economic rhetoric is nefarious demagoguery

MIDDLE ISRAEL: Netanyahu’s election strategy is to blame his rivals for economic problems that they did not cause and he cannot solve.

 LIKUD PARTY leader and head of opposition Benjamin Netanyahu visits Jerusalem’s Mahaneh Yehuda market in October 2021.

Palestinians protest against soaring prices ahead of strike

Lawyers said at least nine people had been detained and police removed a number of tents set up in the street by protesters, who are calling for a general strike in Hebron.

 Members of Palestinian security forces are deployed amid protests over rising prices, in Hebron, in the West Bank, June 6, 2022.