The October war of 2023 led to a sharp increase in the need for mental health services on the part of the general population and especially for specific groups within it, among them persons injured by the Hammas attack or dislocated as a result of that attack and the subsequent war, families whose homes were damaged from rocket fire and soldiers suffering from post-trauma. The widespread distress occurred at a time when Israel’s public mental health services had been suffering for years from a chronic shortage of personnel, unfilled positions and, as a result, the general inaccessability of public mental health services.

An infographic presentation based on a study by the Adva Center in cooperation with the Friedrich Ebert Foundation on gender pay gaps in Israel.

For the first time, the Israel Ministry of Labor published data about workers paid by the hour, and as it turns out, the situation is dismal: Employment by the hour has become a widely used method for simply reducing the cost of labor. It is harmful, exploitative and unethical, and in the long run not necessarily economically advantageous.

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.

Adva Center’s annual publication for 2016: The fruits of the economic growth trickle upwards more than down

Low Productivity is the Result of, among others, Lowering the Cost of Labor

The report challenges the routine government position with regard to social maladies: economic growth and still more economic growth. The figures belie the reliance on economic growth

The report reveals the worsening of the share of workers in Israel between 2004 and 2014

Lessons From Around the World

Israel’s Heart is in Western Europe, Her Feet are in the Eastern and Southern Fringes