Startup Israel Suffering Most OECD Poverty as Poor Surge
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Unable to pay their rent and turned down for public housing, Yafit Krisi and her husband gathered their four children and moved into a tent outside the city hall in Ashkelon, on Israel’s Mediterranean coast.
“Life is very hard in Israel and everything is very expensive,” the 33-year-old mother said as her children played in a nearby parking lot. “It weighs down on us.”