About a third of employees in Israel are battling lower monthly income and a worsening financial situation as they struggle to recover from the economic fallout of more than two years of war sparked by the October 7, 2023, Hamas massacre, according to a survey by the Israel Democracy Institute (IDI).
“The survey presents a troubling picture of a worsening economic impact across almost all population groups, reflected in rising shares of respondents reporting harm to their income and scope of employment,” says IDI’s Daphna Aviram-Nitzan. “We hope that the findings of this survey… will assist decision-makers in shaping and directing economic assistance.”
The IDI poll conducted between April 23 and May 10 finds that 31 percent of employees (salaried and self-employed) in Israel contend with lower salaries or personal income from their business compared with the pre-Hamas war period.
The survey by the non-partisan IDI think tank was conducted among a representative sample of 1,202 salaried and self-employed workers.
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