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 A CUSTOMER shops for groceries at a Rami Levy supermarket branch, in Jerusalem.

Supreme Court ends tax-based food stamp criteria, expands eligibility

 The new "Mamuniya" welfare complex in east Jerusalem, opened August 4, 2024.

Failing to learn from complaints: Israel’s Welfare and Social Affairs Ministry

By YOSEF SOLOMON
 Ambulances outside the Rambam Hospital in Haifa, on March 30, 2020.

Health services prepare for emergency situation as northern front intensifies

 The new "Mamuniya" welfare complex in east Jerusalem, opened August 4, 2024.

New welfare complex opens in east Jerusalem, expected to be city's largest

Electra Afikim's lineup of electric buses; Israel's first wireless charging electric bus depot.

Gov't to approve 1.03% cut-off in ministries' budget for aid to Gaza border communities

 Israeli women and children from Kibbutz Nir after being rescued from Hamas terrorists by the Israel Border Police, October 7, 2023.

Israel offers NIS 10 million to orgs. who will treat young October 7 survivors

 Holocaust survivor, Sarina Blumenfeld, 89, who endures flashbacks from the horrors of her past and now struggles to process the carnage following a deadly infiltration by Hamas gunmen, shows black and white photos during an interview with Reuters in her home in Ashdod, southern Israel, October 23

Of the 2,500 Holocaust survivors who experienced the October 7 massacre, 86 have died

By AVICHAY CHAIM
 Israeli children in an Ashkelon bomb shelter, October 8, 2024, just one day after the October 7 massacre.

October orphans: Who cares for Israeli kids whose parents were killed by Hamas?

By SHANNA FULD
 A view of the damaged exterior of a UNRWA health centre, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Gaza, in this still image taken from video released February 15, 2024.

Aid workers, including from UNRWA, face deportation from Israel

 Thousands attend the funeral of Staff Sgt. Shilo Yosef Amir, killed in a shooting attack near Kedumim, at the Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem, on July 7, 2023.

Losing family to terror attacks at young age can make academics harder - study

 The destruction caused by Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Be'eri, near the Israeli-Gaza border, in southern Israel, October 14, 2023.

21 Israeli children orphaned by Hamas's October 7 massacre

Man in wheelchair, illustrative

Israel to bring in thousands of foreign caregivers for people with disabilities

 Ya'akov Margi, Minister of Welfare and Social Affairs

Breaking the cycle of poverty

 People take part in the annual LGBTQ Pride Parade in Jerusalem, on June 6, 2019.

Welfare minister rejects A-G's call to allow LGBT couples to adopt

 THE FOSTER families provide loving, stable homes for children to recover from difficult situations (Illustrative).

Israel has over 11,000 at-risk children but no foster homes for them

WITH THE help of El Al, members of Krembo Wings get ready to spread their wings.

Lack of gov't funds sees summer camps for special needs Israeli kids scrapped

 Hadar Kess, CEO of Sunflowers.

The bright side of Israel: One girl's mission to save thousands of children

By MAARIV
 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