Recent political gridlock has made life far more difficult for the nearly 11,000 families that relied on the National Initiative for Nutritional Security, a program that provided NIS 500 a month for basic grocery expenses.
Gidi Kroch, the CEO of Leket Israel, a nonprofit focused on the elimination of food insecurity in Israel, says that the problem remains unresolved in part “because the government doesn’t think it’s an issue. It’s focused on its so-called security and everything else is secondary to it.”
