The full-day event was organized by two MKs, Naama Lazimi (the Democrats) and Michael Biton (National Unity Camp), and two non-profits – The Public Housing Forum and the Adva Center

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.

Domestic violence is a major reason for housing insecurity for women and their children. This position paper was prepared for a round-table discussion initiated jointly by the Forum for Public Housing, the Adva Center and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, the purpose of which was to increase housing options for abused women in Israel.

“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 publication deals with a number of issues affecting Israel’s social welfare system, the type of ideology and praxis guiding the social welfare services, and the need for a new vision for the social welfare system in Israel.

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 level of protection of the population is affected, among other things, by discriminatory planning policies and unequal allocation of resources. Addressing the challenge of safeguarding residential apartments in Israel requires an integrated strategy which will be devoid of profit-driven motives and based on direct state investment

Neglect of residents of the unrecognized villages is outrageous. The security threat prevents Bedouin citizens residing in the Negev from purchasing necessities, thus creating a threat of food insecurity and even hunger, which is liable to exacerbate if the present war continues

A briefing paper written as a collaborative effort between the Inter-Agency Task Force on Israeli Arab Issues (IATF) and the Adva Center on the exclusion of Arab citizens from bona-fide financial services

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