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No electricity, jobs, or freedom: 36 hours in Gaza
An electricity company overcharging for little power. Class gaps and struggles to find work. A seaside restricted by the blockade. How do Gazans do it?
By
Samah Salaime
September 3, 2023
Tel Aviv’s radical left finds a new home
Culture of Solidarity, which began as a mutual aid initiative during lockdown, has grown into a hub for a new generation of activists across many struggles.
By
Alice Austin
August 26, 2022
The Mizrahi feminists shaking up Israel’s human rights scene
A new movement is bringing a fresh model to the struggle for the rights of Israeli society’s most invisible and marginalized groups. Can it succeed?
By
Ben Reiff
April 12, 2022
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‘I’ve no idea how we’ll survive’: Pandemic pushes Palestinians into poverty
As the COVID-19 crisis wears on, Palestinians in the West Bank are struggling to make ends meet — and some local governors are taking matters into their own hands.
By
Suha Arraf
August 5, 2020
‘Total poverty’: Bedouins in Israel struggle to get by under pandemic
The coronavirus crisis has worsened years of government neglect of Bedouins in the Naqab, forcing a once self-sufficient society into deeper destitution.
By
Suha Arraf
July 21, 2020
Jerusalem by the numbers: Poverty, demolitions, and exile
As nationalist Israelis celebrate the ‘unification’ of the city, when Israeli troops occupied East Jerusalem in 1967, a look at the data shows a far bleaker picture of life for Jerusalem’s Palestinian residents. The following is a collection of facts, figures, and statistics about Jerusalem compiled and published on the occasion of “Jerusalem Day.” Nationalist Israelis…
By
Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
May 13, 2018
A patriotic death, not only on the battlefield
Israeli economic and social policies are turning a growing number of people into a burden, a surplus cost that can be saved by withdrawing benefits and tightening up welfare criteria. These people are branded as work-shy, cheats and parasites. Against this background, it is clear that even though the National Program for the Prevention of…
By
Haokets
July 12, 2015
Poverty kills: Survival and struggle in ‘the other Israel’
No matter how much I look, I never seem to find any news items about those whom Israeli society sacrifices on a daily basis, slowly, until they turn to dust. By Yael Cohen-Rimer (translated by Yudit Ilani and Shaked Spier) She is somewhere outside, the 13-year-old girl who was sent by welfare services to step…
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Haokets
April 11, 2015
WATCH: In Israel, the ruble’s collapse hits hard for elderly Russian Jews
Today’s generation of older immigrants from the former Soviet Union worked their whole lives — 30 years in Russia and 20 years in Israel. Up until six months ago, their pensions from Russia helped them stay above water. Since the sharp decline of the Russian ruble, however, many of them are now forced to survive…
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Social TV
January 3, 2015
Small gods with big sticks at the unemployment office
How is it that a civil servant’s whim, impression or impulse can shatter an entire family’s lives? Some people, pushed and pushed into the corner, can’t take it anymore. By Yudit Ilany When the Israeli Employment Service (the unemployment office) registers somebody as “uncooperative,” all social security payments are automatically suspended for two months. This…
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Haokets
October 29, 2014
Be’er Sheva, a city with no refuge from rockets
In Be’er Sheva, there are two kinds of people: those who sit protected in their shelters, calling for the occupation of Gaza, and the thousands of people who, living in buildings that crumble around them and with nowhere to run, just wait for the end. I live in such a building. Conversations with residents who…
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+972 Magazine
July 13, 2014
Jerusalem by the numbers: Poverty, segregation and discrimination
The following is a collection of facts and figures about Jerusalem, compiled and published on the occasion of “Jerusalem Day.” Nationalist Israelis mark Jerusalem Day on Wednesday to mark the anniversary of the conquest of East Jerusalem and the Old City in 1967. The celebrations include the “march of the flags,” where flag-bearing Jewish revelers…
By
Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
May 28, 2014
A failed revolution: Why Israel’s next social protest will be a violent one
The next social protest will be violent because the demand will no longer be for change but for a revolution – and revolutions are violent by nature. Two years after Israel’s social protests, poverty is only increasing, a small number of people control the economy and politicians are still ignoring the grievances of those who…
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+972 Magazine
December 18, 2013
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