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

VAT increase will mean many in Israel go hungry

By Rabbi Simcha Krakowski

IFCJ Representatives Deliver to Rivka Krichevski

'We are there for them': IFCJ doubles aid to NIS 26.6m. for Israel's needy amid war

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

People beg on the streets of Jerusalem.

Poverty and inequality in Israel is high and worrying, the National Insurance Institute says

VOLUNTEERS GIVE away food packages to elderly people in southern Tel Aviv in November 2024.

Israel is losing the war on poverty

By ERAN WEINTROB

The face of childhood housing poverty

Nearly 30% of Israelis, over 600,000 children living in poverty

FINANCE MINISTER Bezalel Smotrich addresses the Knesset plenum, earlier this year. While the government is busy formulating the state budget for 2025, it appears that the war has become a convenient excuse to ignore the deep social crisis in which Israel finds itself, the writer argues.

The war is not an excuse to neglect the fight against poverty

By BECKY COHEN-KESHET

Palestinians receive food packages from the World Food Program (WFP) of the United Nations, in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, on September 10, 2024

'Liberating Gaza': A path forward to save Gazan Palestinians from poverty

By NEVILLE TELLER

A 15-year-old Rohingya boy, who said he was abducted for conscription by a military-aligned Rohingya insurgent group, poses for a picture in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, June 26, 2024.

'I am suffering deep down': Myanmar's poor travel to India to sell their organs

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF , REUTERS

Children at Beersheba’s Hagar bilingual school read together

Language development gaps widening among young Israeli children due to gov’t errors, lack of equity

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

Dedication of Food Truck Highlights Multi-Agency Partnership In Fighting Hunger

IFCJ partners with Leket to combat food insecurity in Israel

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

The face of childhood housing poverty

Just under 20% of American-Jewish households struggling to make ends meet

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Yael Lavie

Here's how one Israeli executive pivoted to make more of a difference in the world

By Yael Lavie

Met Council.

Met Council expects to feed 300,000 poor New Yorkers over Passover

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Married at age 8 to an abusive husband and divorced by 9, Sana has devoted herself to pursuing an education, paving a path for similarly underprivileged girls.

Divorced at 9, Pakistani tribal girl earns degree in English literature

By ARSHAD MEHMOOD/THE MEDIA LINE

Breast milk has been prove to be more beneficial than baby formula.

Requests for baby food spike since start of Israel-Hamas War

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Nicole Yoder, Vice President for Aid and Aliyah of the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem (ICEJ), with Eli Cohen, CEO Pitchon-Lev

WATCH: Helping Israel is essential for Christian Zionists

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish family performs the Kaparot ritual in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighbourhood, September 20, 2015

Israel ranks low in OECD children’s poverty standings

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

Children visit a makeshift memorial in Ofakim, where B'ezri is providing assistance to those in greatest need in the aftermath of the loss of 50 community members who gave their lives in defense of the city.

B'ezri: Commitment to combat poverty - opinion

By SORI TROPPER