poverty

The Hiriya Landfill Restoration Project, located southeast of Tel Aviv, Israel. Food waste dumped into landfill is doubly negative for the environment, because of the environmental costs of producing food. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

October 23, 2018, 11:51 pm

Knesset passes law protecting restaurants that donate their excess food

In effort to reduce food waste, Israel become fifth country to introduce laws absolving donors of legal liability for damages caused by donated goods

By Michael Bachner

A construction team from Tenufa Bakehila - Building Hope, a nonprofit organization founded to help low-income families fix and renovate their homes (Courtesy Jordan Polevoy)

October 10, 2018, 10:10 am

With extreme makeovers, nonprofit rebuilds families through their homes

Building Hope, an organization that combines house renovation with social services, has fixed 4,400 homes of needy Israelis, and wants to expand its activities

By Michael Harel

In this April 4, 2013 file photo, a group of boys walk past a partially collapsed row house in Baltimore. (AP/Patrick Semansky)

July 13, 2018, 7:49 am

By allowing towns to segregate, Israel may cross a different kind of red line

The wounds of America’s redlining policy, which led to segregated housing, still fester 50 years after it was rescinded. Will the nation-state bill put Israel on the same path?

By Joshua Davidovich

June 29, 2018, 7:03 pm

Arik Ascherman

Sometimes, it really isn’t complicated

‘Don’t exploit the poor’ means making sure a single mother can pay rent, and that farmers’ fields are protected

Jordanians buy second-hand shoes in an open air market in central Amman on June 8, 2018. (AFP Photo/Ahmad Gharabli)

June 9, 2018, 7:22 pm

After protests, Jordan’s poor have little hope of change

Despite shelving of tax hike in wake of demonstrations, hard-hit residents of Amman fear nothing will improve

By Marisol Rifai

A picture taken on November 1, 2017, shows a general view of buildings in downtown Gaza City and the Israeli port city of Ashkelon in the background (AFP PHOTO / THOMAS COEX)

May 20, 2018, 12:50 pm

PA employee in Gaza sets himself on fire after salary withheld

22-year-old father of two reported to curse government as he burns himself in the street, is moderately injured

By TOI staff

View of the Tel Aviv skyline in a dense sandstorm, September 08, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

May 1, 2018, 8:23 pm

IMF says Israeli economy robust but social gaps threaten long-term stability

International body says Israel saw strong growth and low unemployment in 2017 but measures must be taken to increase productivity, improve infrastructure, and cut poverty

By Sue Surkes

In this April 4, 2018 photo, Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba, left, applauds as US Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., answers a question during a town hall meeting examining economic justice 50 years after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., in Jackson, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

April 6, 2018, 6:53 pm

Bernie Sanders struggles with new path to black voters

Weighing 2020 run, Sanders is still searching for the right way to attract more of the voters who denied him the nomination last time

By Bill Barrow

A construction site for new apartment buildings in Beit Shemesh on February 21, 2017. (Yaakov Lederman/Flash90)

March 11, 2018, 3:35 pm

OECD warns Israel’s housing bubble could pop, predicts continued economic growth

Survey urges government to increase spending on infrastructure, education to alleviate poverty of ultra-Orthodox and Israeli Arabs

By Simona Weinglass

Money traders watch computer screens with the day's exchange rate between yen and the US dollar at a foreign exchange brokerage in Tokyo, November 9, 2016. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

January 22, 2018, 4:18 am

Richest one percent made 82% of wealth created last year — report

Ahead of World Economic Forum in Davod, Oxfam findings show poorest half of the world received none of 2017’s financial bounty

By AFP

People walk by a homeless man sleeping on the street, near cafes in the center of Jerusalem. November 10, 2013. (Nati Shohat/FLASH90)

December 6, 2017, 2:23 pm

1.8 million Israelis, 842,000 of them children, under poverty line — report

In Jerusalem, over half of children impoverished, annual study says; country sees improvements, but situation still ‘grave’ by OECD standards

By Marissa Newman

December 5, 2017, 3:56 pm

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

A daughter of Israel alone on Jaffa Road

A few shekels, the occasional meal — we need to do a lot more for those who need our help

November 20, 2017, 10:48 pm

Irina Chernobryvets

Ukrainian Jews are in crisis

My organization does all it can to help those in thrall to extreme poverty, neglect, and abuse, but it’s not enough

Ultra-Orthodox Jews read lamentations outside one of the entrances to the Temple Mount, during the annual Tisha B'Av (Ninth of Av) fasting and a memorial day, commemorating the destruction of ancient Jerusalem temples, on August 14, 2016, in Jerusalem's Old City. (AFP PHOTO / AHMAD GHARABLI)

September 26, 2017, 4:31 pm

Bid to boost employment of ultra-Orthodox men is stalling, report says

Finance Ministry says the increase in employment of Haredi men is slow and will not meet government targets

By Shoshanna Solomon

Illustrative: Israeli schoolchildren, August 27, 2013. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90/File)

June 15, 2017, 5:24 pm

UNICEF child welfare report finds Israel among worst in developed world

One in three children is considered poor in the Jewish state, says UN agency

By Stuart Winer