The human suffering caused by the present war is unprecedented in Israel’s war history. Against this background, the 2025 budget proposal promises Israelis numerous “dark years” — years without a social agenda.

Mayors and Displaced Residents of Localities in the North of Israel Discuss Strategies to be Undertaken “the day after” the October 2023 War Ends.

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.

The study, published by the Adva Center, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Israel, examines the gender aspects of the October 7 war in view of international research on the unique gender effects of crises and emergencies on women.

Israel’s chances of reaching the higher echelons of OECD social and economic scales will grow dimmer and dimmer year by year, as the hostilities continue and the military budget maintains its first-priority status.

The evacuation of residents from the border areas of the Gazan Strip and the North of Israel since October 7, 2023, has created “a new spatial order.” Like Origami, Israel has become a country with a different social and spatial texture than that prior to the “folding.” The refiguring that occurred has far-reaching implications on the lives of persons evacuated as well as on the absorbing municipality and its inhabitants.

Budget cuts in the Employment Program for Arab women and men will result in perpetuating the gaps between Jews and Arabs; they also augur damage to the Israeli economy, especially in light of the reduction in the employment of Arabs since the outbreak of war.

While the Knesset prepares to pass the national budget for 2024, the question of a rising defense budget and dwindling funds for social services are at the top of the agenda.

The 15% budget cut in the 5-year plan is liable to negate the progress made to date and to increase the level of violence in Arab society.This is a decisive moment in Israel’s responsibility for Palestinian society – and for Israel as a whole.

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