Study: Over Half of Yerushalayim’s Children Live Below the Poverty Line

YERUSHALAYIM

View of Yerushalayim. as seen at night. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ahead of Yerushalayim Day, the Jerusalem Institute for Policy published its report on the capital last week, revealing that it is one of the poorest cities in Israel.

In 2020, 58% of the children in Yerushalayim lived below the poverty line. 

While only 15% of Haifa residents live below the poverty line – and only 12% in Tel Aviv – in Yerushalayim, Jewish residents below the poverty line stand at 32%.

This is still considerably lower than the Arab population, at 61%. Throughout Israel, the poverty rate among the Arab population is at 39%.

Almost half of the Arab children in mixed cities live in poverty, a rate four and a half times greater than for Jewish children, according to The Media Line.

Over 2.5 million Israelis currently live in poverty, with 1.1 million children among them, according to a December report by the Israeli organization Latet.

Among the chareidi population in Yerushalayim, 45% live below the poverty line, slightly higher than throughout Israel at 41%.

Yerushalayim accounts for 10% of Israel’s total population, with the largest Jewish and Arab populations of any city in the country.

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