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Opinion - Lifting Israel Out of Poverty Hazon Yeshaya - The Gift of Giving - Beyond Soup Hunger Grips Israel - Detroit Jewish News Study: 30% of Israeli children live below poverty line - Globes Food insecurity - Jerusalem Post Food for Thought - Lifestyles Magazine Israeli Economic Reform: Mixed Bag - New York Times
Lifting Israel Out of Poverty By Abraham Israel Israel’s Government has announced a new three-year plan to combat poverty but resembles the efforts of a paramedic applying plaster to a hemorrhaging wound. With 1.63 million Israelis living below the poverty line, the Government plans to help just 242,000 of them over the next three years, leaving 1.4 million without hope. The National Insurance Institute last year counted 775,000 impoverished children, but the Prime Minister is extending a helping hand to 115,000 of them – just 15%.Read the entire story...
The Gift of Giving - Beyond the Soup By Gavriel Horan "In Egypt in 1958, a Jew was literally a sitting duck,"
Reb Avraham Israel recounts. When Nasser rose to power,
countless Jews fled for their lives, seeking refuge wherever they
could go, to avoid the wrath of the anti-Semitic dictator.
Among them was the young Avraham, then a boy of nine, who together
with his family escaped to France. The journey consisted of
traversing the desert on camels, crossing the Mediterranean in an
old Italian boat that nearly sank, and literally fearing for their
lives at every border crossing until they arrived safely in Paris.
There, however their problems were not over—
Hunger Grips Israel By Robert A. Sklar, Editor He started out seven years ago serving freshly prepared hot meals to three needy families — 17 people — on a daily basis. He cooked on a small stove in rented space in Jerusalem.
The hungry have never stopped coming.
Today, Abraham Israel’s Hazon Yeshaya Soup Kitchens serve 6,000 Israelis a nutritious hot meal every day at noon from 38 sites across the country. Recipients range from school kids to shut-ins, from native-born sabras to newly immigrated olim.
Study: 30% of Israeli children live below the poverty line by Zeev Klein 350,000 children in Israel are currently at risk, physically
and emotionally, while over 600,000 children are members of poor
families, according to a new study conducted by National Insurance
Institute director-general Dr. Yigal Ben Shalom and economist Roni
Bar-Zuri. The study was commissioned by the Taub Center for Social
Policy Studies in Israel, headed by Prof. Yaakov Kop, a senior
economist in the field of social services and welfare.
Food insecurity By Larry Derfner The elementary school kids have already eaten their charity lunch
- hot dogs, noodles, cooked vegetables, salad, bread and
fruit-flavored drink. Now they are learning and playing calmly in
the after-school program run by the Rishon Lezion Hesder Yeshiva.
The children are sensitive about their poverty, especially when it
comes to food, so it is suggested that I relay my questions about
what they eat at home to a young woman doing her National Service
with the program, and she will ask about a half-dozen kids.
Food for Thought By Aviva M. K. Sieradski A dash of childhood dreams. A handful of business sense.
A cup full of volunteers and 150,000 families going hungry every day. It’s a
pretty heavy recipe that adds up to over 100,000 meals a month. Hazon
Yeshaya, founded by child-refugee-turned-successful-businessman Abraham
Israel, is providing those meals as well as a host of other services
for Israel’s needy.
Israeli Economic Reform: Mixed Bag By Greg Myre Benjamin Netanyahu is racing to revolutionize Israel's
economy, and he considers it a sprint, not a marathon. In just over
four months as finance minister, Netanyahu has cut the top income tax
rate from 60 to 49 percent, winning cheers from the wealthy. He is
making sweeping reductions in social programs, provoking protests from
the poor. He is attempting to raise the retirement age to 67, prompting
demonstrations by older workers, and he has revamped the pension
system, drawing praise from economists. The national airline, El Al, is
being privatized, and Netanyahu plans to greatly reduce the state's
role in the telephone, electricity and banking industries. "We are
doing two things - making drastic reductions in the public sector and
stimulating the private sector," Netanyahu said in an interview. "The
country will undergo a short period of hardship as we decelerate from
the old system, and then there will be a great spurt of growth."
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