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.

“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.

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 “Iron Swords” war, which began on October 7, 2023, has had far-reaching effects on Arab women in Israel. The damage wrought has wider social and economic implications that affect the strength of the family and the community, as well as Arab society in Israel and Israeli society as a whole.

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.

The policy of ‘Arming Israel,’ as it is currently being conducted, will deepen the vulnerability of women in general and women who are caught in the cycle of domestic violence in particular

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