APRIL2006

israel's hell similar to that in america

Excerpt from BBC World News


Israel's economic growth has forged a wider gap between the rich and the poor, and in so doing the otherwise welcome prosperity has had the peculiar effect of undermining some of the values that used to unite the country's people.

The government's own figures reveal that one in three children in Israel live in poverty, an indication that values such as social justice and solidarity are being eroded.

And the situation is getting worse.

The overall proportion of poor people in Israel has risen from 15% during the 1990s to 20% now, according to figures from Israel's National Insurance Institute.

Israel now ranks second after the United States in the table of inequality in developed countries, and there has been a parallel fall in solidarity among workers in the country.

"In the past, about 80% of Israel's labour force belonged to trade unions, but this ratio has shrunk to about 30%," observes the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).

"To be poor among the poor is not so bad. Being poor in such a consumer-oriented culture as there is now creates a lot of problems," says Tel Aviv University lecturer Yosi Katan.

Israeli Arabs and ultra-orthodox Jews, who tend to have large single-income families, are strongly represented among the poor....

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Ultra-Orthodox Jews attend a demonstration against the Israeli elections in the mainly ultra-Orthodox Mea Sharim neighborhood of Jerusalem, Tuesday March 28, 2006. Some of the Ultra-Orthodox Jews are anti-Zionists and resisit the existence of the state of Israel. (AP, 3/28/06).

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