Hunger

The mistake you make in the morning: Why are you hungry just an hour after eating?

Feeling hungry a short time after breakfast? It is possible that the problem is not with the amount of food, but rather with its composition.

A healthy breakfast
Studies show that sometimes between 8 to 15 exposures are required before a new food moves from "strange" to "acceptable"

The man who couldn't watch Israel throw its food away: The story of Leket Israel

Workers prepare AIS boxes at a World Food Programme (WFP) facility in Damascus countryside, Syria, July 29, 2025.

World Food Programme slashes Syria aid, affecting 7.2 million as funding crisis deepens

Afghan men queue to receive packages of fortified biscuits distributed by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) organisation in the Laja Mangal district of Paktia province on March 16, 2026.

WFP warns tens of millions could face acute hunger if Iran war continues


Hamas, the WFP, and the hunger crisis - opinion

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) already said Gazans were running out of food in October 2023.

 PALESTINIANS SEEKING aid gather near a distribution site run by the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in Rafah on Tuesday. The Hamas government made its priority readying for war and not the feeding of the people who voted them into power, the writer asserts.

Stop wasting food: The Passover challenge of excess and hunger - opinion

This Passover, let us recommit to values that truly matter. Let us consume with intention and give with generosity.

 COOKED MEALS are prepared for distribution. NIS 2.7 billion worth of food, enough to feed hundreds of thousands, will be wasted in Israel this holiday season, the writer laments.

Can Israeli innovation end global world hunger? - opinion

The need for action is urgent, but the path forward is clear. Together, we can achieve a world without hunger.

NEGEV DESERT - APRIL 06 2011:Israeli farmers desert farming planting vines in a desert farm in the Negev, Israel. Israel is a world-leader in agricultural technologies despite its dry climate

Freed hostage Eli Sharabi details time in terror captivity to Channel 12's 'Uvda'

Freed hostage Eli Sharabi shared harrowing details of his 491-day captivity, the loss of his family, and the struggle to survive, in an interview with Channel 12's 'Uvda'.

 Ex-hostage Eli Sharabi reunites with family at Sheba Medical Center, January 8, 2025.

Freed hostages require urgent care after extreme starvation in Hamas captivity - explainer

The hostages who emerged from Hamas’s brutal stage of humiliation have set off alarms in Israel’s healthcare system, which is now preparing for intensive treatment.

 Ohad Ben Ami, a hostage held in Gaza since the deadly October 7, 2023 attack, is released by Hamas terrorists as part of a ceasefire and a hostages-prisoners swap deal between Hamas and Israel in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, February 8, 2025.

Israel fears declaration of famine in Gaza as UNSC to meet

The issue of a famine declaration for Gaza, however, has grown beyond the issue of ensuring that Palestinians in the enclave have food.

 PALESTINIANS GATHER to receive food in the northern Gaza Strip this week, as residents are said to be facing crisis levels of hunger.

Thousands of Israeli schoolchildren are coming to school hungry

Nevet organization will provide 17,000 sandwiches a day to keep the hunger away.


IFCJ partners with Leket to combat food insecurity in Israel

IFCJ donated $42,247, to make the project possible, which funded the purchase of the truck as well as additional support related to adapting the vehicle for food distribution.

Dedication of Food Truck Highlights Multi-Agency Partnership In Fighting Hunger

Editor's Notes: 'There is no famine in Gaza' - comment

The United Nations said in February that more than a quarter of Gaza’s 2.3 million people were “estimated to be facing catastrophic levels of deprivation and starvation.”

 A DISPLACED Palestinian child eats at a tent camp amid food shortages in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.

Israeli NGO sends convoy of food to Gazans

"We will not stand idly by. On Thursday, we will all demand stopping the starvation in Gaza," the Israeli grassroots peace movement Standing Together stated.

 Food donated to Gazans by Israeli citizens