Poverty

Requests for baby food spike since start of Israel-Hamas War

"Israeli society cannot afford a situation where there are parents who cannot provide their babies with the most basic thing of food."

WATCH: Helping Israel is essential for Christian Zionists

Maayan Hoffman, Deputy CEO - Strategy and innovation for the Jerusalem Post, speaks with Nicole Yoder, Vice President for Aid and Aliyah of the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem (ICEJ)

Israel ranks low in OECD children’s poverty standings

The study was carried out by Jerusalem’s Taub Center for Social Policy Studies.

B'ezri: Commitment to combat poverty - opinion

For more than 40 years, American Friends of Yad Eliezer has provided a safety net for tens of thousands of families in some 50 communities across Israel.

By SORI TROPPER
17/12/2023

WATCH: A Pitchon-Lev volunteer tells her story

American volunteer Drea Rice speaks with Maayan Hoffman, Deputy CEO - Strategy and innovation for the Jerusalem Post, about her work with Pitchon-Lev.

IDF: Hamas officials keeping Gazans in poverty, suffering

Following the IDF's invasion, it has been discovered that Hamas has been hoarding wealth away from Gazans living in poverty.

Pitchon-Lev - Israel's beating heart in peace and in war

WATCH: Eli Cohen, CEO of Pitchon-Lev, one of Israel’s foremost humanitarian organizations in conversation with Maayan Hoffman, Deputy CEO - Strategy & Innovation for the Jerusalem Post.

Pitchon Lev CEO calls for price controls in face of rising food prices

Among those affected are impoverished families, whose struggles have only increased since the beginning of the conflict.

Homeless Israel

Poor and working-class Jews are underrepresented in pop culture, new analysis argues

TEN estimates that one in five Jewish American households earn less than $50,000 a year.

By ANDREW LAPIN/JTA
03/10/2023
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