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A LIGHT rail train stops at Damascus Gate. The service connects the eastern and western parts of Jerusalem.

Editor's Notes: Jerusalem isn’t united. But it can be

DO WE remember and provide for those still living in our midst?

Jerusalem's Holocaust survivors struggle to survive poverty, hunger

A man looks at a festive table as it is lifted above the ground as part of an installation titled ‘The Unreachable Meal’ organized by Latet, a charity established to help fight poverty in Israel, at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv.

'Economic hell': High prices push Israelis to poverty, exile - opinion

By SHOSHANA TITA

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

Shas leader MK Arye Deri is seen at the Knesset, on July 26, 2021.

Arye Deri pitches 50% off graves to impoverished Holocaust survivors

By TZVI JOFFRE , Yaki Adamkar/Walla

Israelis stand still as the siren to commemorate Holocaust victims sounds throughout Israel on Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 28, 2022.

Israel to light up public buildings in yellow for Holocaust Remembrance Day

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

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

Second-generation refugees in Israel see life as far from perfect

By LIDAR GRAVÉ-LAZI

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

By ZACHY HENNESSEY

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

Poverty rates in Israel are among the highest - opinion

By TALI NIR

YA’ACOV MARGI, the new welfare and social affairs minister: Since its establishment five years ago, the Council for Food Security’s recommendations have not once been presented to the government.

Why is poverty in Israel getting worse? - opinion

By GIDI KROCH

Letters

Letters to the Editor January 25, 2023: Morning coffee

By LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

A MARCH takes place in Tel Aviv to raise awareness of the difficult living conditions of Holocaust survivors, in 2018. The large sign reads ‘Marching for Life,’ and carries the insignia of Aviv for Holocaust Survivors, a nonprofit organization.

Why does Israel fail to support Holocaust survivors? - opinion

By NOAM FRUCHTER

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

4 IN JERUSALEM | MAY 15, 2020RELIGIONHOME ECONOMICSSUPER HAMOSHAVA on Emek Refaim Street: Hopefully things are getting back to normal.

Over half a million Israelis live in food insecurity, but GDP is up

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Israeli money bills.

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

By MAARIV ONLINE