Poverty report

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

 A man search in a trash bean in the city center of Jerusalem on June 02 2020.

National Insurance Institute issues 2022 Report on Poverty and Income Inequality

 Volunteers help pass off bags of supplies

Jewish NGO feeds New Yorkers battling hunger during High Holy Days


Elderly, child poverty increased in 2018, national report finds

NGOs combating poverty express concern with increasing poverty for elderly, although rate of overall poverty remained the same in 2018 over 2017 figures.

one of the Pitchon Lev's, a poverty assistance organization, help centers.

2 Jewish groups say new food stamp rules will ‘devastate’ the needy

“The new SNAP rules announced yesterday by the Federal government will devastate low-income New Yorkers by denying them critical food benefits they rely on to feed their families."

A poor woman poverty impoverished homeless 311

Nearly 20% of Australian Jews living in poverty

Yet five of the ten richest Australians are Jews.

A view of the Sydney Opera House

‘More than one-quarter of Israelis poor or nearly poor’ - Report

While Israel's technological and scientific breakthroughs are impressive, it is still has the highest rate of poverty of any OECD country, according to a National Insurance Institute report.

A man in Jerusalem searching through the garbage

Aid group: One third of American Holocaust survivors live in poverty

Three quarters of the approximately 3,000 survivors the group aids are older than 75, and saw a 10 percent increase this year in aid requests for survivors battling cancer.

A Holocaust survivor shows the number that was tattooed on his arm in a Nazi concentration camp during the Holocaust

Report: 22% of Israelis lived in poverty in 2016

The figure is the highest rate in the developed world.

A homeless person in Jerusalem

Heroes of Israel: Poverty's Angel

How many people can one man feed? 100,000!

Rav Aryeh Lurie

Mashav: Israel’s Agency for International Development Cooperation

Some 300,000 people have been trained, leaving them as goodwill ambassadors for Israel and empowered to develop and build.

MASHAV trains women from around the world so they can be agents for change in their communities

Israel neglecting social welfare investment; child poverty at 25%

Welfare minister Haim Katz says people must go back to work. Unemployment at record low of 4.6%.

Homeless person on Jaffa Street in Jerusalem.

Table suspended above Tel Aviv's Rabin Square to highlight food insecurity

The “The Unattainable Meal," exhibit will be visible from September 18 to 24th to symbolize some 200,000 families who are unable to afford meals on a regular basis.

Latet's 'Unattainable Meal' exhibit in Rabin Square in Tel Aviv