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Now it's worse according to a February 2009 NII study showing:
-- one-third of Israeli children (774,400) living in poverty-stricken families;
-- one-fourth of Israeli households with children impoverished;
-- another 39,000 single-parent poor families;
-- 44% of all families needy enough to receive NII stipends;
-- over 400,000 families suffering from "nutritional insecurity," a euphemism for hunger meaning they skip meals, eat less, some days not at all, and have nutritionally deficient diets high in carbohydrates and low in fruits, vegetables, dairy products, and protein-rich foods.
Israeli streets highlight the problem - 1,000 or more daily at soup kitchens for a hot meal; older men and women picking through garbage in larger cities; and growing numbers of Israeli Jews joining the ranks of the impoverished as social benefits erode at a time of greater need. Like America, Israel no longer cares.
According to Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Sociology Professor Uri Ram, author of "The Globalization of Israel: McWorld in Tel Aviv, Jihad in Jerusalem," even the Labor Party renounced its founding values, and embraces the "transforming (of) Israel from a welfare society into this kind of free-market, corporate-dominated" one.
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