More than one-quarter of Israeli households sought welfare in 2011
More than one-quarter of Israeli households required
welfare services in 2011, according to official data.
A report published on Feb. 6 by Israel’s Central Bureau
of Statistics said that 520,000 out of 1.83 million registered households
approached welfare services for assistance in 2011.
Out of those, 15 percent were single-parent households
and 47 percent were one-person households.
The average Israeli household has 3.73 people with a
monthly expenditure of $3,760. In 48 percent of Israeli households, each member
has at least one room, an increase of four percentage points since 2003.
In 2011, Israel had 107,000 single-parent households.
The report was released ahead of Family Day in Israel,
scheduled for Feb. 10, Army Radio reported.
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