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


Just 10 percent of world military spending could defeat poverty

UN figures show an estimated 800 million people live in extreme poverty and suffer from hunger, with fragile and conflict-torn states experiencing the highest poverty rates.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu (standing in the first car) and Colonel-General Oleg Salyukov (second car, standing), Russia's Army Commander and Victory Parade Commander review troops at the beginning of the Victory Day parade at Red Square in Moscow

Yael's corner: The war on poverty

"It’s better to die than to live like this,” a heartbreaking sentiment I have heard far too many times from poor elderly Israelis.

A man in Jerusalem searching through the garbage

Latet’s Alternative Poverty Report finds over 2.6 million poor people in Israel

Last year, 14% of children were forced to beg in the street.

A man in Jerusalem searching through the garbage

Kahlon to blame for rise in poverty says former welfare minister

Cohen spoke in response to Kahlon’s statement the previous day blaming Yesh Atid for the dismal statistics presented in the poverty report.

Moshe Kahlon

Annual report paints grim picture of poverty in Israel

According to Central Bureau of Statistics data, in 2014 there were 776,500 children living below the poverty line.

A homeless person begs for change in Israel

Gaza unemployment world's highest as 60% of youth find themselves jobless

While about 43% of PA’s expenditures are spent in Gaza, only 13% of its revenues come from Gaza

A Palestinian boy plays at a house that witnesses said was destroyed during Operation Protective Edge in the east of Gaza City

Yesh Atid social welfare platform calls for major reform of National Insurance Institute

The party is calling for separation of the administrative bureaucracy and medical committees in an effort to reduce the long wait times at the NII.

Yair Lapid and former Welfare Minister Meir Cohen present Yesh Atid's social welfare platform outside of the National Insurance Institute in Tel Aviv on Wednesday

Parties use poverty report to slam PM

Yesh Atid MKs, who were ministers until two weeks ago, say Netanyahu blocked reforms that could have curbed poverty.

Former Welfare and Social Services Minister Meir Cohen

Growing rift between poor and financially stable sectors of Israeli society, IFCJ survey finds

"Poverty in Israel is perceived as a problem of the poor and not as a significant threat to society,” said Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, founder of the IFCJ, “these figures are a warning sign."

 Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein

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.

Poverty in J'lem 370