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


War in Ukraine threatens world food security

Sharp rises in food prices in the past have caused political unrest

 Ukrainian children and women who fled war zones in the Ukraine, arriving on a rescue train to Budapest, Hungary on  March 21,  2022.

How is Israel working to fight food insecurity - opinion

Jewish tradition actually forbids food waste, with the commandment of bal tashchit (not to destroy or waste) being an important religious and environmental ethic.

 Leket Israel Distributing Hot Food to the Needy

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.

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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