About 1.77 million Israelis are poor out of them 850,000 children live in poverty and 75 percent of impoverished Israelis could not serve meals because of their worst financial situation, according to “alternative poverty study” reveals by an NGO Latet.
Eighty three percent of the poor children did not receive dental care and 22 percent financial distress children think to attempt suicide. About 69 percent of the poor people lack food nutritional security, meaning not enough to sustain good health. Five percent of the children beg for money, 8 percent steal food of necessity and half survive solely on “bread and spread.”
Even about 30 percent of employed and 60 percent of those unemployed, especially over three years, need help.
The Latet “seeks to present the human face of poverty in Israel and the poor who hide behind the dry figures and statistics published by government institutions.”
Throughout the last decade, poverty in Israel has significantly increased. Social gaps widened and the obstacles to escaping poverty have increased. Netanyahu’s macroeconomic neoliberal policies have improved the economy, but it abandoned and neglected growing numbers of Arabs and Jews.
In other countries in the world, the failure of their anti-social policy would long have justified a civilian rebellion, but the poor in Israel have no political power.
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