Dr. Yitzchak Kadmon, who heads Israel’s Child Welfare Council, warned on Wednesday 10 Adar II that over one million children live under the poverty line. His statement is based on the Bituach Leumi (National Insurance Institute) Annual Report from 2012, which states 880,000 children are under the poverty level.
He explains the Bituach Leumi report does not take two points into account;
1) The 2013 government decision to cut the monthly child allowance payments.
2) The children of Israel’s Bedouin community
He explains that with these factors taken into account the number is well over one million.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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oh please let us not believe every thing we read.
I live in EY and am an avrach vatik. There is an article in Jpost today that some 86% of Israelis satisfied with life. We only have 5.5 million Jews here and many are old and young. So to say that one million children live below the poverty line is either they don’t have two laptops, or some one is inflating the numbers to get more money for their mosad.
There is poverty, but not on the level that this article portends.
Jews! use the brains that G-d gave you to discern inflated numbers.
Remember: Figures don’t lie, but liars figure.
Since Israel has a big “informal economy” (in English: working off the books), these figures are meaningless. Remember according to their figures most hareidim are unemployed whereas in fact they are employed by frum organizations or business – and these are the same figures the “poverty” estimate is derived from. One question is to ask how many children appear emaciated rather than chubby.One might compare the standard of living today with what it was 25 or 50 or 75 years ago. Another indicator is to look at how much is spent on luxury items such as electronics and simchas, and all this suggests that poverty isn’t a big problem.
Considering that there are about 3 million children in a population of about 8.5 million, and the article is not limited to Jews but includes also Arab children, why do you(garlic and akuperma) find it so hard to believe?
I guess it must be more comfortable for you to deny the problem than to offer help. Tsk Tsk, and in chodesh Adar……..
Seems that many of those parents
do not work.