Israel Poverty: One In Three Children Are Hungry
Jerusalem----October 12......As Israel enters into Yom Kippur one fact remains unchanged. One Israel child out of three is poor, a poverty report reveals. Every third child in Israel lives below the poverty line, according to an annual National Insurance Institute (NII) poverty report released recently.
A family's situation is considered moderately insecure when Over 400,000 families in Israel suffer from "nutritional insecurity," a euphemistic term for "hunger." 28% of Israeli citizens, or 1,600,000 people are living in poverty. Among them are more than 600,000 hungry children. Those experiencing "nutritional insecurity" eat smaller portions, skip meals and, in extreme cases, don't eat for a whole day. Diets may be high in carbohydrates and lacking or almost devoid of meat, dairy products, vegetables and fruit. In Israel, 22% of families are deemed moderately insecure and 8% suffer from severe insecurity.
living beneath the poverty line in 2004, as the number of poor grew by 107,500, or 7.5 percent, to 1,534,300, from 1,426,800 in 2003, according to the annual poverty report released Monday by the National Insurance Institute.
