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 A HOLOCAUST survivor examines foodstuffs she received from a nonprofit aiding impoverished survivors, in Beit Shemesh.

'Poverty, by America': Explaining poverty in Israel and the US - review

By ALLAN BOROWSKI
 Takiat Ibrahim soup kitchen, Hebron, on the West Bank, April 4, 2023.

Soup kitchen feeds thousands in Hebron

By MOHAMMAD AL-KASSIM/THE MEDIA LINE
 VOLUNTEERS SORTING and packing fresh, rescued produce at Leket Israel, to be distributed to Israelis in need throughout the country.

Israelis expected to waste one quarter of all food bought for Passover

A PASSERBY stops to console a poor woman in Jerusalem in 2015.

Poverty rates in Israel are among the highest - opinion

By TALI NIR
 CHOOSING BETWEEN bread and milk: 47% of Jerusalemites live below the poverty line (Illustrative).

More Israelis are poor as gap widens between haves, have-nots

By KEREN SETTON/THE MEDIA LINE
 Israeli money bills.

Mother attempts to sell kidney as last-ditch effort in poverty