Over 1,6 million Israelis live below the poverty line.

  This number includes:

  450,000 families

  800,000 children (one out of three)

    75,000 Holocaust survivors

  Every 30 minutes one Holocaust survivor dies.

  Each month over 2,000 of them are passing away

  Israel's percentage of impoverished children was the "highest in the world...

  by the report for 2008 published by the Israeli National Insurance Institute