Monday, January 20, 2020
BLOG: Over the past decade or so, Israeli lawmakers have been slowly curtailing and revoking social benefits from (mostly poor) Palestinian families—citizens of Israel who have contributed to the system all their lives—under the pretext of national...
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Wednesday, July 17, 2019
Minister Yoav Galant sheds light on the Netanyahu government's policy of permitting Qatari money transfers into the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. Israel’s immigration minister, Yoav Galant (Likud) justified Israel’s policy of permitting cash transfers...
Monday, January 7, 2019
A third installment of 15$ million in Qatari funds will not reach the Hamas-run Gaza Strip this week, according to Palestinian media reports Monday.
The reports claim Israel’s government halted the transfer following a rocket launched from Gaza at the...
Monday, January 8, 2018
The Social Affairs and Social Services Ministry is aware that its criteria for aiding homeless people need to be changed, and it has been working on a proposed revision for two years already, ministry documents reveal. Yet despite this, no changes have...
Thursday, December 14, 2017
The Israeli government has promised a total of 4.2 billion shekels (a little over one billion euros) to go towards Disability Benefits. The revised benefits will be introduced gradually. In 2021, the most severely disabled should see their monthly...
Tuesday, June 27, 2017
PM announces implementation of committee recommendations on the issue of pensions for the disabled, says disability pensions will be equated to the minimum wage;disabled groups insist solution leaves them in distress; ‘we’ll demonstrate tonight in front...
Thursday, June 22, 2017
Allowance for people with disabilities to be nearly doubled as poverty among the disabled rises. Coalition chairman David Bitan announced Thursday at a joint press conference with a group of MKs from the coalition and the opposition that disability...
Monday, February 13, 2017
Labor and Social Services Minister Haim Katz announced the launch of a national initiative for food security estimated at NIS 60 million on Monday.
The program, run in collaboration with Colel Chabad and Leket Israel – the National Food Bank, will...