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.

This study, supported by Mazon-A Jewish Response to Hunger, deals with salaried and self-employed workers whose income from work is defined as low, that is, no more than two-thirds of the median monthly pay nationwide.

This guide, published by the Jewish Funders Network, is for foundations and funders who are active in Israel and seek to start or deepen their gender-related activism and increase their social impact in this regard. This guide is motivated by the desire to promote discourse, raise awareness, and provide practical tools for implementing a gender approach in Israeli philanthropy.

“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 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.

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.

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.

What led the government to allocate additional funds exclusively to resilience centers in the West Bank, despite data suggesting a higher demand for strengthening resilience centers in the south due to an increased number of traumatic stress victims?

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