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Poverty indicators for families with a single wage-earner have risen from 22.6% during the last NII survey to 23.9% in the current one. [48] Poverty is high among Ultra-Orthodox Jews and Israeli Arabs. Comparing a March 2011 report by Adalah, to today, poverty in Arab families in Israel has improved by 8–10% in just one decade.
Welfare in Israel refers to the series of social welfare schemes in the Israeli government which are administered by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services, and by Israel's national social security agency, Bituah Leumi. All residents of Israel must pay insurance contributions in order to qualify for welfare.
According to World Bank, "Poverty headcount ratio at a defined value a day is the percentage of the population living on less than that value a day at 2017 purchasing power adjusted prices. As a result of revisions in PPP exchange rates, poverty rates for individual countries cannot be compared with poverty rates reported in earlier editions."
Homelessness in Israel is a phenomenon that mostly developed after the mid-1980s. [1] Homelessness increased following the wave of Soviet immigration in 1991. As many as 70 percent of homeless people in Tel Aviv are immigrants from the former Soviet Union, nearly all of them men. According to homeless shelter founder Gilad Harish, "when the ...
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An inside look at an ultra-Orthodox wedding in Israel. ... Updated July 14, 2016 at 7:48 PM. 22 Photos. ... had female and male guests separated by a gauze curtain and the bride wore a full-face veil.
Melissa Barrera has broken her silence after she was let go from Scream VII over comments she made online in regard to the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. In a statement posted to her Instagram Story on ...
The economy of Israel is a highly developed free-market economy. [23] [4] [24] [25] [26] The prosperity of Israel's advanced economy allows the country to have a sophisticated welfare state, a powerful modern military said to possess a nuclear-weapons capability with a full nuclear triad, modern infrastructure equivalent to developed countries, and a high-technology sector competitively on par ...