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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