Food prices

Mango season opens with a 70% collapse in yield – and prices will soar

The 2026 season opens under the shadow of extreme weather volatility that led to severe damage to the blossoming. Despite rigid demand, the low quantities will skyrocket prices in retail chains.

Fatal blow to the Israeli mango industry
The shekel has strengthened against the dollar, so why aren't we feeling relief at the supermarket?

The annoying truth behind the illusion of the low dollar

A map showing the Strait of Hormuz is seen in this illustration taken June 22, 2025.

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

UNOX CASA at Nyga Chef FOR HOME.

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


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.

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.