Report: Covid Impacted 80% Of Low-income Israeli Families

As the ongoing Covid pandemic poses a clear threat to general health, it was also apparent in 2021 that the virus impacted economic health for low-income Israeli families, according to an Israeli NGO that focuses on poverty and food insecurity.

In their poverty report, LaTet said that 80 percent of Israelis who receive aid from the organization had their employment status affected by Covid in 2021, amounting to either loss of hours, loss of shifts, or being laid off. 

“It is the weakest within Israeli societies that [Covid] is hitting the most,” LaTet founder and president Gilles Darmon told i24NEWS.

The NGO also estimated that over 220,000 households fell into economic hardship this past year due to the virus.

“It was important for us to show the gap in 2021 between the start-up nation and the soup kitchen nation. There are two different realities in Israel.”