Poverty Report

1 in 4 Israeli citizens poor

Annual poverty report reveals over 1.6 million Israeli citizens live below poverty line

Over 1,630,000 million Israelis live below the poverty line, according to an annual Poverty Report.

The report, published Thursday by Israel’s National Insurance Institute (NII), showed that 404,000 families lived below the poverty line during the second half of 2005 and the first half of 2006.

The poverty line is defined as 50% of the median net income and is adjusted to family size.

The report also showed that over 35 percent of children in Israel were living in poverty.