Food prices

CBS: Apartment prices in sharp decline, rent skyrockets

The CPI for June remained unchanged, completing a moderate annual increase of 1.6%. Concurrently, overall home prices recorded a sharp monthly decline of a full percent and an annual drop of 2%.

Apartment prices continue to fall.
Avocado harvesting.

Record avocado season: Prices expected to drop to NIS 5 per Kilogram

Fatal blow to the Israeli mango industry

Mango season opens with a 70% collapse in yield – and prices will soar

The shekel has strengthened against the dollar, so why aren't we feeling relief at the supermarket?

The annoying truth behind the illusion of the low dollar


Import reform plus competition could hurt Israeli manufacturers - opinion

A real opening of the Israeli market to international competition could adversely impact manufacturers’ profits. Here's how:

Textile business 311

Israel Elections: Who cares about Israeli voters? - opinion

Let’s take stock of where we – those who will be voting once again on November 1st – stand in relation to what we require as against that which we receive.

 ISRAELIS SET UP tents last month on Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv, to protest against the soaring housing prices in Israel and social inequalities.

Netanyahu's economic rhetoric is nefarious demagoguery

MIDDLE ISRAEL: Netanyahu’s election strategy is to blame his rivals for economic problems that they did not cause and he cannot solve.

 LIKUD PARTY leader and head of opposition Benjamin Netanyahu visits Jerusalem’s Mahaneh Yehuda market in October 2021.

Palestinians protest against soaring prices ahead of strike

Lawyers said at least nine people had been detained and police removed a number of tents set up in the street by protesters, who are calling for a general strike in Hebron.

 Members of Palestinian security forces are deployed amid protests over rising prices, in Hebron, in the West Bank, June 6, 2022.

Kosher pantries call for emergency Passover funding

The Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, the largest distributor of free kosher-for-Passover food in America, put out an emergency Passover fundraising call to raise $2.5 million.

 A City Harvest truck delivers pallets of kosher food to Masbia of Boro Park as part of their annual Passover Food Drive, April 11, 2022.

Ukraine war-related inflation may drive protests and riots – World Bank

The bank last month warned the impacts could be particularly harsh in the Middle East and North Africa, where countries like Egypt import up to 80% of their wheat from Ukraine and Russia.

 Anti-government protesters throw molotov cocktails during clashes with police, outside Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) in Hong Kong, China November 17, 2019.

Israel is 6th-most expensive country in the world for groceries

According to the research, the average cost of standard groceries in Israel totals $28.45 per person a week – a figure higher than that of the US, Denmark or Canada.

 A RAMI LEVY supermarket in Jerusalem last week.

NSO affair mountainous scandal gets much smaller - opinion

So far, preliminary examination of the evidence offered by Ganon in his Calcalist articles is far from being conclusive.

 A man walks past the logo of Israeli cyber firm NSO Group at one of its branches in the Arava Desert, southern Israel July 22, 2021

Osem cancels plan to increase product prices

Osem intended on raising the prices of their products by five percent.

 Osem products at a shop in Tel Aviv.

Pasta, the poor and giving - opinion

I often encourage people when making a budget to add a line item, charity. This way they are always putting money on the side in order to give.

pasta shells with chicken and vehetables