Food security

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.
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

Leket Founder Says Israel Needs To Rethink the Culture of Food Waste

Leket founder says Israel needs to rethink the culture of food waste - interview

'THERE IS such a big supply of food and so many hungry people; the problem is in the distribution and in the method of getting it out there.’

Nearly three million Israelis face food insecurity, including one million children, report finds


World faces food crisis due to Ukraine war, Russian billionaire Melnichenko says

Several of Russia's richest businessmen have publicly called for peace since President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion on Feb 24.

 Spray Fertilizer Pesticide Tractor Agriculture.

Germany to host G7 meeting on Ukraine invasion's impact on food security

"Price hikes for agricultural products cannot be excluded in industrialized nations either."

The German flag is pictured at the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany, November 7, 2017

Yemen aid cuts to deepen as funds dry up, UN warns

The UN aid chief warns that funding shortages could reduce food rations to Yemen, as the war greatly escalates.

 People stand in line to receive vouchers at a food distribution center supported by the World Food Program in Sanaa, Yemen June 3, 2020.

Meet the urban project promoting agriculture, carpentry, food rescue

These days, we generally live longer and are still able to live a full life and even to contribute well past official retirement age.

 A PARTICIPANT in Muslala's carpentry course.

World food prices hit 10-year peak in 2021

World food prices have jumped 28% over 2021 for the highest average level since 2011, contributing to the broader surge in inflation as the economy recovers from the COVID-19 crisis.

A boy holds a cardboard box of food aid received from World Food Programme in Aleppo's Kalasa district, Syria, April 10, 2019

Average household said to throw out NIS 615 worth of food each month

The annual food-waste report highlights the severe need for a food-rescue program.

 A Leket employee delivers food to the eldery

UN reduces Yemen food rations due to funding shortage

Food rations are being reduced for 8 million people in Yemen, leading to more already hungry and food insecure people joining the ranks of millions who are starving.

 People crowd to get food rations from a charity kitchen in Sanaa, Yemen July 20, 2020. Picture taken July 20, 2020.

Tens of thousands of Israeli families could have no food on Rosh Hashanah

Some 155,000 Israelis entered the circle of poverty due to the pandemic.

 A Leket employee delivers food to the eldery