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A homeless person in the streets of Jerusalem, December 18, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/FLASH90)
January 30, 2026, 10:01 am
Almost 2 million Israelis below poverty line, including 1 in 4 kids – latest annual report
National Insurance figures for 2024 show 21% of Israelis live in poverty, including 880,000 children and 150,000 elderly citizens, the 2nd-highest rate of child poverty among OECD countries
By ToI Staff
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January 22, 2026, 10:53 pm
Holocaust survivors are still with us. Let’s make sure they’re not alone.
Tens of thousands of Holocaust survivors live in poverty. Remembrance must be matched with urgent action — now. Support Latet, Israel’s largest NGO fighting poverty.
By Gilles Darmon
A homeless person in the streets of Jerusalem. December 18, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/ FLASH90)
December 9, 2025, 9:32 pm
Over quarter of families suffer from food insecurity, as living costs jump – study
Latet charity says 867,256 families in Israel, including 1.2 million children, struggle to get proper nutrition, as economic war toll and rise in cost of living squeeze incomes
By Sharon Wrobel
A homeless person in the streets of Jerusalem. December 18, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/ FLASH90)
December 18, 2024, 7:40 pm
Nearly 2 million Israelis below poverty line in 2023; 1 in 4 children are poor
National Insurance Institute figures show that 20.7% of the population was living in poverty in 2023, including 872,400 children; Arab and ultra-Orthodox communities are worst off
By ToI Staff
Israeli Bedouin women working at a Bezeq customer service center, located in a mosque, in the southern Arab town of Hura, July 27, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
July 11, 2024, 7:16 pm
Income from employment in Arab Israeli society grows faster than other sectors – study
As the government cuts funding for the integration of Arab Israelis, a study finds signs that the contribution of Arab society to economic growth has grown over the past decade
By Sharon Wrobel
Palestinians look at the destruction after an Israeli airstrike in Deir al Balah, Gaza Strip, Tuesday, April 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
May 2, 2024, 7:36 pm
UN says Gaza reconstruction to cost $30-40 billion, damage on scale unseen since WWII
United Nations Development Programme report estimates Palestinian economy has shrunk by 26.9% since Hamas’s October 7 massacre
By AFP and ToI Staff
Aviel Zaguri, left, and his brother Meir stand outside their yeshiva in Netivot, Israel, on October 15, 2023. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)
October 17, 2023, 1:27 pm
In Netivot, poverty compounds the problems of a battered border city
Thousands of the frontline city’s residents are riding out incessant Hamas artillery, citing faith, defiance — and lack of better options
By Canaan Lidor
Workers unload goods outside a supermarket, in downtown Jerusalem, December 8, 2022. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
April 5, 2023, 2:18 pm
Food welfare organizations report sharp rise in requests as Passover approaches
Pitchon Lev says request for aid increased by 285%, and average age of those seeking assistance dropped from 67 to 53 in 2022
By ToI Staff
A Lasova restaurant soup kitchen employee serves bread to the needy in Tel Aviv on September 8, 2019. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)
January 17, 2023, 9:08 am
State study finds nearly 1 million Israelis suffered from food insecurity in 2021
Slight improvement seen since last report in 2016, but problem remains severe in Arab community, where insecurity rates hit 42%
By ToI Staff
Students at an ultra-Orthodox school in Jerusalem on August 9, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 2, 2023, 8:58 am
Haredim are fastest-growing population, will be 16% of Israelis by decade’s end
Group includes 1.28 million people in 2023; Haredi women increasingly joining workforce while men’s numbers stagnate; poverty rate twice as high as in general population
By Judah Ari Gross
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A kitchen before Tenufa Bakehila worked on it. (Credit: Tenufa Bakehila)
December 21, 2022, 7:45 pm
NGO confronts Israel’s hidden housing crisis
Their homes are dark and in deep disrepair. Elderly shower in cold water in the winter, Holocaust survivors drag buckets of water to broken toilet so they can flush.
By Elisheva Wadler
An Afghan refugee boy carries a bag of mangoes on his shoulder in Karachi, Pakistan, June 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)
July 7, 2022, 12:51 pm
71 million people have fallen below poverty line since Ukraine war, UN says
As prices soar in wake of Russian invasion, nearly 70% of the world’s population is living in poverty or vulnerable to it
By Aya Batrawy
Illustrative photo of a woman begging in Jerusalem. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
December 29, 2021, 4:44 pm
Despite pandemic, poverty rate dropped in 2020 due to government aid — report
National Insurance Institute says proportion of poor Israelis fell 0.6% to 21%; estimates quality of life rose by 2.4%, whereas without state payouts it would have dropped by 10%
By ToI Staff
Elderly people, many without face masks or not fitted properly, sit in tightly packed lines waiting to withdraw their pensions in Harare, Zimbabwe on December 13, 2021. (AP Photo/ Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)
December 27, 2021, 8:54 pm
Omicron surge worsens Africa’s severe poverty, hunger woes
UN commission warns that continuation of pandemic could ‘bring the total number of extremely poor Africans to 514 million people’
By FARAI MUTSAKA
An unhoused man seen outside a grocery shop in the city center of Jerusalem on December 15, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
December 23, 2021, 5:14 pm
Over 2.5 million Israelis live in poverty, among them 1.1 million kids, report finds
Charity organization Latet also says proportion of households close to poverty line, experiencing food insecurity and financial distress, rose to nearly 25% since pandemic began
By Ricky Ben-David
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