Poverty report

Millions of Israelis, including 900,000 children, live in poverty, NII report for 2024 shows

Poverty rates remain especially high among Arab and haredi populations, who together account for 65.1% of people in poverty, nearly double their share of the population.

JANUARY 30, 2026|ByAVIHAI CHIIM

ABOUT 41% of Jerusalem families suffer from poverty, compared to about 20% in the rest of the country.

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.

DECEMBER 8, 2025|BySARAH BEN-NUN

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

"The sharp rise we are seeing in the number of aid recipients ahead of Passover is a clear and stark expression of the deepening distress in Israeli society," Pitchon Lev CEO Eli Cohen said.

APRIL 7, 2025|ByAVIHAI CHIIM

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

DECEMBER 31, 2023|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

How will COVID-19 impact global poverty?

Boris Mints Institute laureate Professor Sabina Alkire presents the latest research on global poverty.

MAY 14, 2020ByALAN ROSENBAUM

An illustration, created at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), depicts the 2019 Novel Coronavirus

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.

DECEMBER 31, 2019ByJEREMY SHARON

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."

DECEMBER 11, 2019ByRON KAMPEAS/JTA

A poor woman poverty impoverished homeless 311

Nearly 20% of Australian Jews living in poverty

Yet five of the ten richest Australians are Jews.

JUNE 24, 2019ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

‘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.

MARCH 14, 2019ByEYTAN HALON

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.

JANUARY 27, 2018ByJTA