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Dec. 30, 2020
For the first time in 20 years, the official National Insurance Institute poverty report won’t be published in 2020 but be postponed by at least half a year, according to Director General Meir Spiegler. The report was supposed to present the data on poverty and inequality in Israel for 2019, and the government investment in preventing poverty and inequality, compared to other countries.
Like the reports on the preparedness of the health care system prior to the pandemic, the public was supposed to receive data about investment in the social safety net before a serious socioeconomic crisis. According to an NII source, “Clearly this report wouldn’t flatter the government and would show that we’ve reached this difficult situation with COVID with a porous social security system, and allowances and investment that are too low by any criterion.”