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One of every four Israelis is poor, 2005 poverty report shows
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By Ruth Sinai, Haaretz Correspondent
Half a million Israelis have fallen below the poverty line over the past five
years, representing some 100,000 families, according to the National
Insurance Institute (NII) poverty report to be released on Monday. During
that same period of time, Israel's population increased by about 8 percent,
but the number of poor increased by 45 percent.
Over the past five years, the number of poor people in Israel grew from
1,088,100 in 2000 to nearly 1.6 million in 2005, the report says. The data in
the report cover the second half of 2004 and the first half of 2005.
According to the last poverty report, released in August 2005 and relating to
2004, 1,534,300 Israelis were below the poverty line - 23.6 percent of the
population. In 2000, on the other hand, 18.8 percent of the population was
defined as poor, meaning that five years ago, one in every five Israelis was
poor, and by 2005, the number had risen to one in four.
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