Food prices

Baby food aid requests rose 25% in 2025, infant formula prices climb, Social Bank reports

Data from the National Insurance Institute found that 2.8 million Israelis currently live with food insecurity, including over a million children.

An illustration of a mother feeding a baby a bottle of formula.
One of Leket Israel’s Logistics Centers: An economic endeavor

The food Israel wastes each year could feed a country, so why doesn’t it?

Chicken Thighs at NIS 7.90: Gimmick or the Start of a Consumer Revolution?

Unusual move: The chain selling fresh chicken thighs for less than NIS 8 per kilogram

A shopper buys fruits and vegetables at a local market in Aix-en-Provence, France, January 16, 2025.

Cultivated food and advanced tech: How can the world fight food price surges? - opinion


Israel is 6th-most expensive country in the world for groceries

According to the research, the average cost of standard groceries in Israel totals $28.45 per person a week – a figure higher than that of the US, Denmark or Canada.

 A RAMI LEVY supermarket in Jerusalem last week.

NSO affair mountainous scandal gets much smaller - opinion

So far, preliminary examination of the evidence offered by Ganon in his Calcalist articles is far from being conclusive.

 A man walks past the logo of Israeli cyber firm NSO Group at one of its branches in the Arava Desert, southern Israel July 22, 2021

Osem cancels plan to increase product prices

Osem intended on raising the prices of their products by five percent.

 Osem products at a shop in Tel Aviv.

Pasta, the poor and giving - opinion

I often encourage people when making a budget to add a line item, charity. This way they are always putting money on the side in order to give.

pasta shells with chicken and vehetables

Could price hikes and cost of living turn Israel against Bennett?

POLITICAL AFFAIRS: Eleven years after the July 2011 socioeconomic protests, disgruntled consumers are headed back to the streets.

 A GROCER unpacks bags of Osem noodles in a Tel Aviv market.

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett called to lead cabinet dedicated to stop rise in prices

A special Knesset meeting took place after a recent wave in food and household prices that upset many.

 A plenum session in the assembly hall of the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, February 2, 2022.

Gradually increasing prices could lead to ruin for lower-income Israelis - analysis

Israel has one of the world’s highest income wage gaps, with the bottom 50% of the nation making 19 times less than the top 10%.

A woman shops at a supermarket in Jerusalem June 19, 2016.

Osem postpones price increase as Israelis lament rising costs

'Now is the time to say something; to get everyone together and scream about it.'

Packages of Bamba - made by Osem - on a shelf in a Jerusalem grocery store on December 29, 2021.

Israel's consumer discontent: Goodbye cottage cheese boycott, hello pasta protest - comment

Up until now, consumer discontent has been relegated largely to complaints on Facebook pages. But there is no guarantee it will stay that way.

Supermarket shoppers and workers without masks in Tel Aviv. (photo credit: AVSHALOM SASSONI)

Israel's gas, electric, and food prices climb as Consumer Price Index jumps

The pandemic’s effect on consumers’ demand continues to plays a significant role in the CPI’s increase.

A woman shops at a supermarket in Jerusalem June 19, 2016.