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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

By Avihai Chiim

People beg on the streets of Jerusalem.

Economic concerns cloud Passover celebrations as cost of living crisis deepens in Israel

Lake Urmia, a salty lake located in northwestern Iran between the provinces of West Azerbaijan and East Azerbaijan

Iran's water crisis at tipping point in threat to Islamic regime's stability

SOME OF THE thousands of asylum seekers, mainly from Sudan and Eritrea, who are living in Tel Aviv.

Asylum-seeking, refugee women in Israel endure higher poverty rates and exploitation

By JOANIE MARGULIES

A woman walks past a poster showing Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

'Know this, Khamenei, this is your end': Iranians slam regime in footage from Tehran to Israel

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Leket's packages for goods.

The second social front: The war on poverty is not over

By Gilles Darmon

Tilshork (Zehava) Ayalew speaks at the Knesset about the poverty crisis in Israel.

Eurovision lessons: Israel can tackle poverty through participatory policymaking

By Yoni Blasbalg

The committee for the fight against poverty, headed by by MKs Pnina Tamano-Shata and Avraham Betzalel.

Knesset marks national day for the fight against poverty

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

ELI COHEN, CEO of Pitchon Lev. The organization provides a voice to those plagued by poverty, representing them through advocacy and promoting legislative change, says the writer.

Break the cycle of poverty for the sake of our kids

By ELI COHEN

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