Food prices

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

Data from the National Insurance Institute found that 2.8 million Israelis currently live with food insecurity, including over a million children.

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

Chicken Thighs at NIS 7.90: Gimmick or the Start of a Consumer Revolution?

Unusual move: The chain selling fresh chicken thighs for less than NIS 8 per kilogram

A shopper buys fruits and vegetables at a local market in Aix-en-Provence, France, January 16, 2025.

Cultivated food and advanced tech: How can the world fight food price surges? - opinion


High dairy prices may rise up to 16% in May

Why do dairy products cost so much more here than in other OECD countries?

 Dairy products on sale at Machsanei HaShuk supermarket chain, one of Israel's largest privately-owned food retail chains, in the northern town of Katsrin, Golan Heights on September 12, 2022.

Fix Israel's high prices, cost of living with true free-market system - opinion

The real issue in the Israeli market is that it is not a capitalist system but an oligopoly.

 A CUSTOMER shops for groceries at a Rami Levy supermarket branch, in Jerusalem.

How much produce can NIS 100 buy in east Jerusalem? TikTok has answer

Despite a high cost of living and fears of rising food prices throughout Israel, this TikTok seems to show that NIS 100 can buy quite a lot in east Jerusalem.

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

Israeli import reforms to bring greater variety to store shelves in 2023

Israelis can expect more variety on store shelves in 2023 due to import reforms that hope to increase market competition and reduce the cost of living.

Consumers at a supermarket, illustration

More Israelis are poor as gap widens between haves, have-nots

Charitable organizations play a vital role in a country where the cost of living and the gap between rich and poor are large and growing, but experts say a real solution requires government action

 CHOOSING BETWEEN bread and milk: 47% of Jerusalemites live below the poverty line (Illustrative).

Hundreds of thousands of Israelis could be laid off without change

The Manufacturers' Association of Israel has warned that if the situation doesn't drastically change, hundreds of thousands of employees will be laid off.

 Independent business owners and workers from the tourism sector protest, calling for financial support from the Israeli government, outside the Ben Gurion International Airport, on December 13, 2021

MK Michael Biton accuses supermarket owners of being 'pigs, tycoons'

Israeli MK Michael Biton took issue with food group owner Rami Levy during a visit to the Knesset, which led to a verbal spat between the two.

National Unity MK Michael Biton leads a meeting to fight against road homicide,  halting the increase in accidents and formulating a national road safety plan, at the Knesset, Jerusalem, October 26, 2021.

From 7-11 to Carrefour: Israel welcomes int'l businesses - editorial

The products offered at 7-Elevens vary worldwide, but the main hope, of course, is that Slurpees will be making an appearance.

The under-construction storefront of Israel's first 7-Eleven store in Tel Aviv, December 2022

Electricity price to rise by 8.2% in January

The Electricity Authority announced an electricity price increase of 8.2% for 2023, but prices are still under the global average.

 View of the Power Station in Hadera, on Janury 27, 2018.

Equinom raises $35M to speed up production of its innovative plant-based protein products

The company’s approach to protein development and production could be a stepping stone toward a more sustainable future.

 Equinom uses advanced biochemical and genomic characterization to develop its seeds and plant protein products