Food security

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.
Farmers and dairy farmers protest against Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich's proposed reforms, January 5, 2026.

Israeli farmers protest Smotrich's proposed dairy reform, warn of 400 farm closures

Leket Founder Says Israel Needs To Rethink the Culture of Food Waste

Leket founder says Israel needs to rethink the culture of food waste - interview

'THERE IS such a big supply of food and so many hungry people; the problem is in the distribution and in the method of getting it out there.’

Nearly three million Israelis face food insecurity, including one million children, report finds


World Food Programme to suspend aid to Palestinians in Gaza, West Bank

WFP will be forced to suspend food and cash assistance entirely by August due to security concerns with Hamas.

Palestinians wait to receive food supplies at an aid distribution center run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) at Beach refugee camp in Gaza City January 14, 2021

Israeli, Ethiopian think tanks sign national security MOU

Israel hopes to provide Israeli technology to Ethiopia so it can better manage its natural resources.

 JCPA President Dan Diker and Director-General Yehiel Leiter exchange signatures on the memorandum of understanding with Dr. Desalegn Ambaw Belete, executive director of the Institute of Foreign Affairs

Egypt's Sisi discusses nuclear plant, grains trade with Russian officials

Construction by Russia's state-owned energy corporation Rosatom of Egypt's first nuclear plant at El Dabaa is expected to take until at least 2030.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi

'You can't stop the revolution:’ 5 themes that will shape 2023

The job of Bank of America’s head of Global Thematic Investing Research is to predict the future. He tells the ‘Post’ what he sees.

 Haim Israel, global strategist and head of Global Thematic Investing Research for Bank of America.

North Korean food shortage seems to be worsening, South Korea says

North Korea has over recent decades suffered serious food shortages, including famine in the 1990s, often a result of natural disasters such as floods damaging harvests.

 FILE PHOTO: A North Korean boy holds a spade in a corn field in area damaged by floods and typhoons in the Soksa-Ri collective farm in the South Hwanghae province September 29, 2011.

Why is poverty in Israel getting worse? - opinion

If a meaningful plan to address food insecurity is not formulated and implemented, it is guaranteed that we will be having this exact same conversation after the release of the next report.

 YA’ACOV MARGI, the new welfare and social affairs minister: Since its establishment five years ago, the Council for Food Security’s recommendations have not once been presented to the government.

More Israelis are poor as gap widens between haves, have-nots

Charitable organizations play a vital role in a country where the cost of living and the gap between rich and poor are large and growing, but experts say a real solution requires government action

 CHOOSING BETWEEN bread and milk: 47% of Jerusalemites live below the poverty line (Illustrative).

Over half a million Israelis live in food insecurity, but GDP is up - survey

A new survey from Israel's National Insurance Institute (Bituach Leumi) found that food insecurity has decreased, but remains a problem.

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

Superfood: Caribbean breadfruit traced back to Captain Bligh’s 1791-93 journey

The answers to a centuries-old mystery may also impact food security for island nations that are highly susceptible to climate change.

 A breadfruit tree in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

Nestlé to build $43 million facility in Ukraine

Nestlé will become one of the few major global corporations to invest in Ukraine in 2022.

 Nestlé facility in Copenhagen, Denmark (2009).