Israel poverty

Growing class of 'war poor' Israelis pushed into poverty post-October 7, report warns

The report depicts a deepening social emergency in which hunger and chronic financial stress are spreading from Israel’s weakest populations into the lower middle class.

 ABOUT 41% of Jerusalem families suffer from poverty, compared to about 20% in the rest of the country.
 IFCJ PRESIDENT Yael Eckstein (center) visits a shelter in Kiryat Shmona. ‘I think it’s a very incorrect assumption to feel or think that we, in the rest of Israel, are not connected to what’s happening there.’

NGOs see dramatic increase in financial assistance requests from young people

 Takiat Ibrahim soup kitchen, Hebron, on the West Bank, April 4, 2023.

VAT increase will mean many in Israel go hungry - opinion

 A HOLOCAUST survivor examines foodstuffs she received from a nonprofit aiding impoverished survivors, in Beit Shemesh.

'Poverty, by America': Explaining poverty in Israel and the US - review


Small gifts – big results

This program is one of the hundreds offered by IFCJ that aims to fill the financial gaps in society.

AN ISRAELI breastfeeds her baby in a buttercup field near Kibbutz Nir Yitzhak on the Gaza border in 2016.

Home-style food for the homeless and poor

Jerusalem is the poorest city in the country, according to a recent report by the Central Bureau of Statistics, with nearly half of the city’s residents living under the poverty line.

The foundation of the Meir Panim nonpro t’s food services is its network of free restaurants in cities throughout Israel, designed to look and feel like any other restaurant

Taub report: Economic slowdown, high poverty and inequality in Israel in 2017

"A State of the Nation 2017," produced by the Taub Center, offers a snapshot of the socioeconomic condition of Israel in 2017.

A homeless man lies on the street.

State of Child report finds 1 in 3 children under poverty line in Israel

Opposition leader MK Isaac Herzog (Zionist Union) blamed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Likud) for the bleak report.

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man walks with his children on a street in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighbourhood September 24, 2015.

Taub: Inequalities in municipal welfare budgeting

The study also found that most of the gaps in per-client budget allocation can be explained by the different care frameworks for the needy.

A PASSERBY stops to console a poor woman in Jerusalem in 2015.

National Food Bank CEO: NIS 8b. worth of edibles wasted annually

“We are throwing away good food people can eat and nobody is doing anything to fix it.”

Leket Volunteers Picking Produce for the Needy

Leket Israel buys land to grow food for the needy

The land is predicted to grow enough produce to feed about 2,700 people daily.

Volunteers work the fields in Binyamina

Handicapés : réduire le fossé

Des centaines de milliers de personnes handicapées rencontrent des difficultés pour joindre les deux bouts

Avital, aujourd'hui handicapée, vit avec moins de 2 400 shekels par mois

Poverty is not a must for Holocaust survivors

Meet just a few of the survivors whose lives have been changed by the “Aviv for Holocaust Survivors” Organization.

The “Aviv for Holocaust Survivors” Organization

Israel's poor brace for government aid shortfall

Passover food baskets distributed to Israelis in need