A first-of-its-kind study by the Adva Center and ASSAF reveals that approximately half of the refugee and asylum seeker population in Israel lives below the poverty line. About 85% experience food insecurity, over half of them at a severe level. Housing expenditures amount to more than 60% of their monthly income.

Three different approaches to the cost of living in Israel point to a number of directions to be taken. Yet, there is no sign of any governmental body taking any action that might contribute to one or more of the solutions proposed.

Position paper [shortened version for English readers] on the Effect of the October 2023 War on the Poor Residing in Israel’s Geographic Periphery, presented to the Special Knesset Committee for the Development of the Negev and the Galilee.

“We are Bedouins; we can subsist on olive oil: We don’t say we don’t have food”: This study addresses food insecurity among Bedouin people living in unrecognized villages in the Negev, following exploratory research conducted in 2022-2023 and an update in the research design after the October 2023 war.

The figures presented in the report reflect the first chapters of the story of the epidemic, which is also a story of the widening of inequality in Israel and elsewhere

The differential impact on Israelis from diverse population groups

This annual Adva Center socio-economic report focuses on the effect of the corona crisis on three population groups and illuminates a number of other factors relevant to the crisis

In the absence of a suitable response, we might find ourselves on the “day after” with a smaller number of unemployed persons but with many more poor and deeper poverty

It’s high time for a turnabout in public policy that places the public interest at the center. This is the bottom line of Adva Center’s annual flagship report

Some people are poor because other people are very rich, whether we are talking about income, the effects of climate change, natural and man-made disasters, or a transportation policy focused on private rather than public transportation