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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.
When it was established, in addition to combatting poverty in Israel, Latet specialized in sending emergency aid delegations and humanitarian assistance abroad following wars and natural disasters: [2] Kosovo and Rwanda after the civil wars in 1997 and 1999, India after the earthquake in 1999, Sri Lanka after the tsunami in 2005 [3] and Haiti following the earthquake in 2010.
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."
September 2-4 - Israel national American football team competed in the European Championship of American football for the first time, losing both of their games; September 7-18 - Israel sent 33 athletes to compete in the 2016 Summer Paralympics; September 13 – Ofek 11 satellite launches from Palmachim Airbase
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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 rivaling many Western countries, and a high-technology sector competitively on par ...
In 2013, she was a member of the Israel Committee for the War against Poverty, [6] [7] and since 2016 has served as senior academic advisor to the Ministry of Welfare and Social Services. Since 2021, Krumer-Nevo is the holder of the David and Dorothy Schwartzman chair in Community Development at the Spitzer Department of Ben-Gurion University ...
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.