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Palestinian women march during a daycare workers strike in East Jerusalem, July 21, 2010. (photo: Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

WATCH: Arab women speak out over labor exploitation

Four years ago, the State of Israel introduced a plan to increase the percentage of working Arab women in order to lift them out of poverty. But did that plan actually work?

By Social TV April 11, 2016

Eli Alaluf, head of the Alaluf Committee to Fight Poverty. (photo: Israel Prize website)

Fight Israeli poverty, not poverty statistics

Poverty in Israel is not the result of low social security transfers, it’s the result of low income. And the truth of the matter is that the issue of poverty is not high on the Israeli government’s list of priorities. By Dr. Shlomo Swirski and Attorney Noga Dagan-Buzaglo (translated from Hebrew by Noam Benishei) The Alaluf…

By Haokets September 6, 2014