Poverty rate in israel

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.

|BySARAH BEN-NUN
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

"The sharp rise we are seeing in the number of aid recipients ahead of Passover is a clear and stark expression of the deepening distress in Israeli society," Pitchon Lev CEO Eli Cohen said.

|ByAVIHAI CHIIM
CHOOSING BETWEEN bread and milk: 47% of Jerusalemites live below the poverty line (Illustrative).

More Israelis are poor as gap widens between haves, have-nots

Charitable organizations play a vital role in a country where the cost of living and the gap between rich and poor are large and growing, but experts say a real solution requires government action

|ByKEREN SETTON/THE MEDIA LINE
Israeli money bills.

Mother attempts to sell kidney as last-ditch effort in poverty

Katy Sorsher Smith, a single mother of two who found herself in a dire financial situation, told radio hosts about her since-deleted LinkedIn post offering her kidney for sale.

|ByMAARIV ONLINE

UNICEF report: Israel has 4th highest child poverty rate in developed world

Israel also had the highest rate of youth aged 15 to 24 not in education, employment or training.

OCTOBER 29, 2014ByLIDAR GRAVÉ-LAZI
A beggar is seen with her child in central Athens

Report: Committee to fight poverty recommendations to cost between NIS 6 to NIS 8 billion

To date, the Israeli government has not allocated any funds to address the phenomenon of poverty in Israel on a national scale.

MAY 28, 2014ByLIDAR GRAVÉ-LAZI
Poverty in J'lem 370

Poverty in Israel

As we celebrate Israel’s 66th birthday, we mustn’t forget that 300,000 families in Israel couldn’t afford to join the party.

MAY 7, 2014ByANNA SHLOMAN
Poverty in J'lem 370