Food security

Israel’s milk crisis is man-made, quotas are to blame - opinion

Dairy farmers and consumers will be the ones who win from Smotrich's reforms; it is the small interest groups that wish to keep the status quo.

FARMERS AND their supporters protest outside the Knesset in Jerusalem against a milk reform promoted by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, in Jerusalem on February 4, 2026.
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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

Farmers and dairy farmers protest against Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich's proposed reforms, January 5, 2026.

Israeli farmers protest Smotrich's proposed dairy reform, warn of 400 farm closures


Why are people throwing away perfectly good food? - study

People are throwing away perfectly good milk without looking if the date is the use by date, sell by date or best before date.

 Is the price of milk in Israel only going to continue to rise? (illustrative)

How can Israel address rampant food insecurity? - opinion

The government can take significant steps toward eradicating food insecurity and creating a fair and sustainable food system for all Israelis.

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

World Food Programme to suspend aid to Palestinians in Gaza, West Bank

WFP will be forced to suspend food and cash assistance entirely by August due to security concerns with Hamas.

Palestinians wait to receive food supplies at an aid distribution center run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) at Beach refugee camp in Gaza City January 14, 2021

Israeli, Ethiopian think tanks sign national security MOU

Israel hopes to provide Israeli technology to Ethiopia so it can better manage its natural resources.

 JCPA President Dan Diker and Director-General Yehiel Leiter exchange signatures on the memorandum of understanding with Dr. Desalegn Ambaw Belete, executive director of the Institute of Foreign Affairs

Egypt's Sisi discusses nuclear plant, grains trade with Russian officials

Construction by Russia's state-owned energy corporation Rosatom of Egypt's first nuclear plant at El Dabaa is expected to take until at least 2030.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi

'You can't stop the revolution:’ 5 themes that will shape 2023

The job of Bank of America’s head of Global Thematic Investing Research is to predict the future. He tells the ‘Post’ what he sees.

 Haim Israel, global strategist and head of Global Thematic Investing Research for Bank of America.

North Korean food shortage seems to be worsening, South Korea says

North Korea has over recent decades suffered serious food shortages, including famine in the 1990s, often a result of natural disasters such as floods damaging harvests.

 FILE PHOTO: A North Korean boy holds a spade in a corn field in area damaged by floods and typhoons in the Soksa-Ri collective farm in the South Hwanghae province September 29, 2011.

Why is poverty in Israel getting worse? - opinion

If a meaningful plan to address food insecurity is not formulated and implemented, it is guaranteed that we will be having this exact same conversation after the release of the next report.

 YA’ACOV MARGI, the new welfare and social affairs minister: Since its establishment five years ago, the Council for Food Security’s recommendations have not once been presented to the government.

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).

Over half a million Israelis live in food insecurity, but GDP is up - survey

A new survey from Israel's National Insurance Institute (Bituach Leumi) found that food insecurity has decreased, but remains a problem.

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