Gaza’s economy has plummeted by 87 percent in two years, deepening poverty and leaving thousands without resources.

Israel should double supplementary assistance and increase support to the elderly, the nation’s Committee to Fight Poverty recommended. The 50-member committee made its recommendations public on ...

(The Media Line) — Out of work and burdened with soaring expenses, a growing number of Israel’s middle class are plunging into poverty. Roughly 800,000 Israelis are out of work, figures from the ...

The next global financial shock will test MENA not only on policy competence, but on priorities. If poverty reduction remains a secondary concern—addressed after crises rather than before them—the ...

— More than 20 percent of Israelis are living below the poverty line, according to the country’s annual poverty report, showing a slight drop from the previous year. The data for the report released ...

Oct. 19 (UPI) --Amid the escalation of the Israel-Hamas war, observers in the region and internationally continue to make assumptions about Gazan public support for Hamas. Mistaken assumptions such as ...

High school students, having defended Hamas, have now turned their activism toward tackling period poverty fighting to support “menstruators in need” in Gaza and Seattle. It’s part of a menstrual ...

In the run up to the general election on March 2, there has been virtually no mention of the deepening crisis facing the Israeli working class. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White ...

Ubon Namsan went to Israel a year ago as a farm laborer, toiling in the fields and greenhouses of a kibbutz just a few miles from the Gaza border, where he planted and harvested pineapple, ...

BEIT SHEMESH, Israel – When Daniel Oritz moved to Israel from Venezuela recently, his first meal was a bowl of chicken soup. He took one spoonful and began to cry. For him, the soup signified an ...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — More than 20 percent of Israelis are living below the poverty line, according to the country’s annual poverty report, showing a slight drop from the previous year. The data for the ...