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Over 27% of Israelis live in poverty and 774,000 children, nearly a third (31%) of all children in Israel, live with food insecurity.

Charity organization Latet also says proportion of households close to poverty line, experiencing food insecurity and financial distress, rose to nearly 25% since pandemic began

Play audio 1XChange playback rate from 1 to 1 Mute audio “We are distributing prepared meals, prudence and food basic to the area around Hadera, Or Akiva, Pardes Hannah and even (the wealthy community of) Caesarea,” she added. The nonprofit prepares 3,500 meals a day for the needy every day, with the number rising to 5,000 on Fridays. “What’s happening here is a testament to poverty in the State of Israel,” she said. “It shouldn’t happen. I’m not giving out gold and diamonds. I’m distributing food. When people come to us we want to cry. People who used to donate to us. Busin...

Channel 12’s Amit Segal still deems his channel’s poll “dramatic,” and other channels also hype up their results, which show Sa’ar’s New Hope getting between 15 and 18 seats, making it the second or third largest party. Blue and White meanwhile drops to a paltry six or seven seats. The entry of another right wing party that is supposedly anti-Netanyahu forces some interesting bloc-making by the journalists trying to analyze the results of the polls. Kan for instance sticks ultra-hawkish secular party Yisrael Beytenu in the center-left-Arab camp, since it can’t find any other pla...