Poverty report

Israel's economic future at risk as productivity falls behind G7 nations, report warns

Israel went from outperforming G7 economies to lagging behind them, as a new Shoresh report warns that education gaps, demographic shifts, and brain drain threaten its economic future.

OCTOBER 15, 2026|BySARAH BEN-NUN

A nighttime view of the Haifa Port and the surrounding area in the northern Israeli city of Haifa, September 17, 2026.

Displaced Lebanese children play in the playground of a public school that has been converted into a shelter in the town of Dekwaneh, north of Beirut on March 25, 2026.

UNICEF warns of severe child deprivation in Lebanon as displacement, economic tolls mount

“Without urgent and sustained action, an entire generation of children and young people risks carrying the scars of this crisis into adulthood,” UNICEF Lebanon Representative Marcoluigi Corsi said.

OCTOBER 1, 2026|ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD

ABOUT 41% of Jerusalem families suffer from poverty, compared to about 20% in the rest of the country.

Millions of Israelis, including 900,000 children, live in poverty, NII report for 2024 shows

Poverty rates remain especially high among Arab and haredi populations, who together account for 65.1% of people in poverty, nearly double their share of the population.

JANUARY 30, 2026|ByAVIHAI CHIIM

Growing class of 'war poor' Israelis pushed into poverty post-October 7, report warns

The report depicts a deepening social emergency in which hunger and chronic financial stress are spreading from Israel’s weakest populations into the lower middle class.

DECEMBER 8, 2025|BySARAH BEN-NUN

Emergency aid effort underway for frontline Jewish agencies for newly poor

Jewish federations throughout North America – there are 146 – are reporting similar challenges in their communities.

DECEMBER 21, 2020BySTEWART AIN/JTA

Volunteers gather at a food distribution center in New York run by the Met Council on Jewish Poverty.

innovation:africa, Israeli innovations saving lives in Africa

Now solar energy has been brought to 104 African villages, and one million people have access to water.

AUGUST 5, 2020ByANN GOLDBERG

Sivan Ya’ari (left) established innovation:africa in 2008

How will COVID-19 impact global poverty?

Boris Mints Institute laureate Professor Sabina Alkire presents the latest research on global poverty.

MAY 14, 2020ByALAN ROSENBAUM

An illustration, created at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), depicts the 2019 Novel Coronavirus

Elderly, child poverty increased in 2018, national report finds

NGOs combating poverty express concern with increasing poverty for elderly, although rate of overall poverty remained the same in 2018 over 2017 figures.

DECEMBER 31, 2019ByJEREMY SHARON

one of the Pitchon Lev's, a poverty assistance organization, help centers.

2 Jewish groups say new food stamp rules will ‘devastate’ the needy

“The new SNAP rules announced yesterday by the Federal government will devastate low-income New Yorkers by denying them critical food benefits they rely on to feed their families."

DECEMBER 11, 2019ByRON KAMPEAS/JTA

A poor woman poverty impoverished homeless 311

Nearly 20% of Australian Jews living in poverty

Yet five of the ten richest Australians are Jews.

JUNE 24, 2019ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

‘More than one-quarter of Israelis poor or nearly poor’ - Report

While Israel's technological and scientific breakthroughs are impressive, it is still has the highest rate of poverty of any OECD country, according to a National Insurance Institute report.

MARCH 14, 2019ByEYTAN HALON

A man in Jerusalem searching through the garbage

Aid group: One third of American Holocaust survivors live in poverty

Three quarters of the approximately 3,000 survivors the group aids are older than 75, and saw a 10 percent increase this year in aid requests for survivors battling cancer.

JANUARY 27, 2018ByJTA