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

A report from the National Insurance Institute (NII) shows a slight improvement in access to food across Israel, but it also shows that geographical and economic food inequality persist.

'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.’
 The Nova Festival Massacre Memorial Site at Re’im Parking Lot

Nova Festival memorial attracts 7,000 daily visitors

 JUST 16 years old, Israel guard Omer Mayer will suit up for the blue-and-white Under-18 team this weekend in the group stage of the European Championship.

Israel’s Under-18 squad ready for its turn

The reading room of the National Library of Israel, in Jerusalem

National Library of Israel to put 300 workers on unpaid leave


Changes to the Rav-Kav card

Rav-Kav smartcards to be used as the card holder pleases throughout the country, on all bus companies and Israel Railways, regardless of where the card was loaded.

The Rav Kav smartcard

Bill upping penalty for burning Israeli flag clears early hurdle

Current penalty is a 300 lira fine, an old Israeli currency no longer in circulation.

Demonstrators burn an Israeli national flag during an anti-Israel protest

Jerusalem Day: City of peace

Jeru means “city” in ancient Semitic languages and Shalem means “peace” (wholeness).

Painting by Yoram Raanan

Gilboa/Galil seals relegation fate with Holon loss; Herzliya upsets Jerusalem

Gilboa’s 87-82 defeat to Hapoel Holon at Gan Ner saw the northerners fall to an 8-23 record.

Bnei Herzliya forward Julian Wright

Watch: Israel celebrates Independence Day with aerial show

Hundreds took to the nation's beaches to catch a glimpse of the Israeli Air Force Aerobatic Team.

Israeli Air Force F-16 planes fly in formation over the Mediterranean Sea as seen from a Tel Aviv beach, April 23

WIN/Gallup International: Israel one of least religious countries

63 percent of respondents across the globe identified themselves as religious.

An Orthodox Jewish worshipper prays at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, in Jerusalem's Old City

Interior Ministry announces new initiative to get African migrants to agree to deportation

Israel has reached agreements with two African countries willing to absorb migrants, which have also agreed not to deport them to their home countries.

African migrants walk outside Holot open detention center in Israel's southern Negev desert

US model adapted by the National Poison Control Center ‘boosts saving of lives and money’

The NCPP pilot began more than a year ago,

Rambam Medical Center campus contains the National Poison Control Center  (NPCC)

Veterans: Charitable matchmaking

Two old friends join forces to help Israel’s disadvantaged by pairing donors with the needy.

The two women are the founders of Ten Gav, providing modest materials to needy families.

Letter to the Jerusalem Report 392880

Readers relate to previous articles in the magazine.

Painting by Avi Katz