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Nearly 30 percent of population live below poverty line; more than 600,000 Israeli children face daily hunger
TERROR ATTACKS FEED HUNGER IN ISRAEL: As poverty and hunger deepen in Israel amid constant terror attacks, Joseph Project International provides a lifeline for children and families across the country.
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Joseph Project International
May 12, 2025
SPRINGFIELD, Penn., May 12, 2025 /Standard Newswire/ -- A humanitarian emergency is sweeping across Israel as poverty and hunger surge, alarming figures reveal.
Latest surveys show that 2.7 million Israelis — almost 30% of the population — live below the poverty line. Nearly 1.2 million — including more than 627,000 children — face hunger every day, with almost one million more on the edge of going hungry, according to Israeli nonprofit organization Latet.
“While media attention remains fixated on Gaza, the devastating hidden crisis in Israel grows more urgent by the day,” said Joel Chernoff, founder and executive board chairman of Joseph Project International, the largest importer of aid in Israel.
“Many around the world see Israel as a prosperous, high-tech society,” Chernoff said, “but the brutal financial toll of defending itself against constant terror attacks is fueling a worsening humanitarian emergency, especially for children.”
Thousands of young children — like six-year-old Aliyah — are at risk. Most days, Aliyah’s only hot meal comes at school, provided by a government feeding program. Her three older siblings don’t get a school meal because the program stops after primary age. “Sometimes I worry, not knowing where meals will come from,” said Aliyah’s mother, Noa.
“It’s incredibly difficult. My children are hungry.”
Families Suffer as Living Costs Soar
In Jerusalem, four out of every 10 families are struggling to feed themselves, often going without essential medications, healthcare and utilities to survive. The soaring cost of living has pushed many families to financial breaking point, tipping more children over the poverty cliff.
Meanwhile, tens of thousands of Israelis have been uprooted from their homes and displaced by Hamas and Hezbollah rocket attacks, and one-fifth of them have lost their jobs as a result, according to a recent survey.
“We’re doing everything we can to ramp up critical aid, including food, clothing, and medical supplies,” Chernoff said. “Since the October 7, 2023, terror attack on Israel, Joseph Project International has distributed more than $26 million in aid to Israeli families — Jews, Christians, and Arabs — in desperate need of help.”
For the past 25 years, the organization has been “a lifeline for Israel’s most vulnerable,” Chernoff said, “showing them the love of the God of Israel and the Messiah of Israel.”
To date, the organization and its established network has distributed more than $175 million in international aid supplies from its 16,000-square-foot warehouse in central Israel. Aid arrives in giant shipping containers, funded by donors across the U.S. and globally.
Operating across Israel, Joseph Project International is the number one importer of humanitarian aid in Israel, annually serving hundreds of thousands of needy Israelis — Jews, Christians, and Arabs.
MEDIA INTERVIEWS: To schedule a video or phone interview with Joel Chernoff, contact:
Melanie McMilan, 860-459-6718, mmcmillan@inchristcommunications.com
SOURCE Joseph Project International
