Below are reports and information about needs in Israel.   

Hebrew news reports 01-24-06 & 01-23-06

INCREASE IN NUMBER OF POOR: 25% OF ISRAELIS.

National Insurance report: Another 46,000 fell below poverty line this year.

730,000 CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN POVERTY.  National poverty report to be published – 1.6 million Israelis living in sub-standard conditions.  500,000 fell below poverty line in last five years.

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MA’ARIV newspaper report August 8, 2005

1.5 MILLION POOR.  Number of Israelis living under poverty line jumped last year.

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Report in Hebrew Newspaper YEDIOT AHRONOT on 11-21-04

1. New poverty report: More poor, more hungry, more workers don’t finish

month.

1.4 MILLION POOR PEOPLE.

This is the National Insurance assessment ahead of publication of annual

report.  Included among poor, approximately 660,000 children.  Reason: Cuts

in benefits.  Who is poor: Family earning less than NIS 4,463. (Courtesy of the GPO)

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“MR. INTERIOR MINISTER, I AM A HUNGRY GIRL.”

14-year-old Or from Haifa was astounded to hear Poraz say that, “There are

no hungry people in Israel,” because she and her brothers are hungry all

day.  She sent letter to minister last night: “You cannot describe to

yourself the heartache of seeing your brothers, your flesh and blood,

scrawny and almost not eating.”  (Report in the Hebrew Press 9/13/04)

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Reports in Hebrew Newspapers on August 10, 2004

HA’ARETZ: CENTRAL BUREAU OF STATISTICS: APPROXIMATELY 500,000 PEOPLE DID WITHOUT FOOD OR MEDICINES IN 2003 DUE TO ECONOMIC DIFFICULTIES.

MA’ARIV: 1. 14% went without food products.  38% went without home heating.  16% went without buying medicine.  54% went without new shoes and clothes.  45% went without dental care.

SIMPLY GOING WITHOUT.

Central Bureau of statistics report determines: Half of Israel’s population

didn’t succeed in finishing the month last year.

YEDIOT AHRONOT: 500,000 ISRAELIS GOING SHORT ON FOOD.

Hundreds of thousands of Israeli families experiencing economic

difficulties.  

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"As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever." 2 Corinthians 9:9

"Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do." Galatians 2:10

"Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy. Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked." Psalms 82:3&4

"There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion

of the band called the Italian band,

A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which

gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway.

He saw in a vision evidently about the ninth hour of the day an

angel of God coming in to him, and saying unto him, Cornelius.

And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said, What is it,

Lord? And he said unto him, Thy prayers and thine alms are come up

for a memorial before God.

And now send men to Joppa, and call for one Simon, whose surname

is Peter:

He lodgeth with one Simon a tanner, whose house is by the sea side:

he shall tell thee what thou oughtest to do."  Acts 10:1-6