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


Shufersal cuts and freezes prices of 320 products

Shufersal supermarkets are set to slash prices on a series of store-brand products.

 People shop for milk products at the Shufersal Deal supermarket in Katsrin, Golan Heights, on November 28, 2022.

Netanyahu must keep promise to lower cost of living in Israel - editorial

Benjamin Netanyahu, the designated prime minister, said during his campaign that the cost of living would be one of the new government’s most important issues.

 Israelis protest against the soaring housing prices in Tel Aviv and cost of living, on July 2, 2022.

Grapevine: Yod-tet gatherings

Movers and shakers in Israeli society

 People some with face masks shop for grocery at the mahane Yehuda market  in Jerusalem on January 13, 2022.

Israel's Strauss to raise prices of snack, dairy foods by 2.9%

The company attempted to hold out against the cavalcade of price increases sweeping the Israeli economy for the past year, but has finally bent.

 THE STRAUSS Elite candy factory in Nazareth.

Israel's Shufersal blinks first in battle over Tnuva price hikes

Shufersal is striking back against the bossy food manufacturer by ridding its shelves of Tnuva products for which suitable substitutes can be sold.

 People shop for groceries at the Shufersal Deal supermarket in Katsrin, Golan Heights, on November 28, 2022.

Tel Aviv no longer the world's most expensive city, drops to third

The British magazines ranked close to 200 cities across the globe based on the pricing of hundreds of individual items and services offered in those cities.

An aerial shot of a Tel Aviv beach

Israel's reliance on food imports makes risk of major food insecurity - report

A new Shoresh Institution report highlights dependence on international food imports, high population growth, and decreased focus on agriculture as primary threats to Israel’s food security.

4 IN JERUSALEM | MAY 15, 2020RELIGIONHOME ECONOMICSSUPER HAMOSHAVA on Emek Refaim Street: Hopefully things are getting back to normal.

What happened to all of Elite's ‘red cow’ chocolate?

BUSINESS AFAIRS: Strauss’s Elite brand chocolate products have still not fully made their way back onto shelves. What are they planning, and what will they need to do to win back consumers?

 THE STRAUSS Elite candy factory in Nazareth in April, after salmonella was found in a few of its products.

Israeli supermarket Shufersal rejects foodmaker Tnuva's price hikes

Tnuva said that it plans to raise prices on mostly dairy products by an average of 4.7% starting next Tuesday.

 The logo of dairy firm Tnuva is seen at the company's logistic centre in the southern town of Kiryat Malachi May 22, 2014

Tnuva to raise prices of various products by more than 4.5%

According to Tnuva, this is a proportional increase in light of the significant increase of raw resource prices, primarily the price of raw milk.

 INSTEAD OF an abundance of foods like meat, chicken, eggs and dairy, try trading most of that for more fruits, vegetables, whole grains and legumes, says the writer.