Hunger

Gaza aid shipments resume as Hamas backs down from extortion threats targeting private merchants

Merchants previously suspended truck coordination activities in protest of a tax threatened by Hamas, wherein the terror organization demanded payments of approximately NIS 10,000 per truck.

Children gather and play on a water truck in Gaza City, Gaza Strip, on September 23, 2026. The Emergency Committee of the Chambers of Commerce and Industry recently held a protest, warning that shortages of tires, oil, and spare parts are disrupting the operation of these water trucks.
Paul Mackenzie, a Kenyan cult leader accused of ordering his followers, who were members of the Good News International Church, to starve themselves to death in Shakahola forest, appears in court for his judgement at the Mombasa High Court, Kenya, October 19, 2026.

Doomsday preacher convicted of mass murder of 190 children, starvation deaths in Kenya cult case

Carl Skau, Acting Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP), visits a soup kitchen funded by the WFP, in Deir Al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip October 18, 2026.

World Food Programme cuts aid to 500,000 Palestinians in Gaza, citing funding shortages

Dr. Yaron Zelekha, chairman of the New Economic Party, and Yoaz Hendel, chairman of the Reservists Party, hold a press conference announcing their joint run in the upcoming general elections, in Tel Aviv, September 6, 2026.

Israelis aren’t afraid of Iran, they’re afraid of supermarket prices, Zelekha says - interview


Central Bank split piles on Yemenis’ problems

Civil war leads to crash in value of money sent back home that many families depend on to survive

A family have breakfast outside their home at a Jewish community in Sanaa, Yemen

Israeli supermarket employs vertical farm start-up for selling produce

The new technologies eliminate the need to rely on outdoor growers and suppliers while also providing a fresher, more eco-friendly product which needs much less water and land to grow.

A Vertical Field "Urban Farm" uses BIOLED eco-lighting technology to grow produce for a Rami Levy supermarket in Bnei Brak.

NY Masbia soup kitchen now operates 24 hours a day to meet huge demands

"It's heartbreaking that this is necessary. But the need has become so great that we could not continue operating like we did even a few months ago," said a Masbia board co-chairman.

Mana Hama soup kitchen preparing meals for delivery during the coronavirus pandemic

Meet Viki Slavin, a hi-tech champion who feeds the hungry during COVID-19

After sleeping at the Moscow airport as a Jewish child in the USSR seeking to come to Israel, Slavin is the head of her own hi-tech company.

Co-founder of ProdOps Viki Slavin

Likud Minister Hanegbi says complaining of hunger is 'populist bulls**t'

The minister-without-portfolio's page on Wikipedia was changed temporarily to open with the words "Tzachi Hanegbi is a corrupt, opportunistic pig."

After saying that complaining of hunger is "populism" and "bullshit," Minister Tzachi Hanegbi's Wikipedia page was changed.

Syria's hunger crisis worsens, COVID outbreak could intensify -UN

The World Food Programme (WFP) told a briefing in Geneva that the number of people short of essential foodstuffs had risen by 1.4 million in the past six months.

Wounded children are seen in a hospital in the besieged town of Douma, Eastern Ghouta, Damascus, Syria February 23, 2018.

More Yemeni children face malnourishment amid aid shortage, coronavirus

Tens of thousands of people have died, many of them civilians, and the ensuing humanitarian crisis has been called the worst in the world.

A displaced Yemeni boy is seen at a refugee camp located between Marib and Sanaa, Yemen March 29, 2018.

Food is not simply sustenance

I wanted people to feel the emotional bond that food can convey, the delight in the tastes of their childhood...

The care and sense of security that goes into providing someone with a healthy meal is what drives Soni Winer in her work with NEVET

Without cash, next round of rockets is coming soon - analysis

The rounds of violence keep on taking the Israelis by surprise, although there is nothing surprising about them.

A Palestinian girl looks out of a classroom window as she attends a lesson on the first day of a new school year, at a United Nations-run school in Khan Young in the southern Gaza Strip

The Smiling Face of Meir Panim

Israel's largest assistance network puts up impressive numbers for helping the needy. Yet, while the statistics are remarkable, the meaning behind Meir Panim’s mission is even more noteworthy.

Meir Panim celebrates Purim