"We must not neglect children. This is a mistake that we will pay for in the future," said President Shimon Peres after receiving the National Council for the Child annual report.
After the poverty report of the National Insurance Institute, and the alternative report of humanitarian aid organization Latet, today the National Council for the Child presented its annual statistical report on the state of child poverty, and a wretched picture it portrays indeed. The report found that one third of Israeli children live under the poverty line and 50% of children are close to the threshold or below it.
When handed the report President Shimon Peres said to National Council for the Child president Dr. Yitzhak Kadmon, "It should not be that the national deficit is pushed onto such young shoulders, on the children. We must change the division of resources in Israel and set clear targets that will help children at risk and in distress. We must not neglect children. This is a mistake that we will pay for in the future."
Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes-online.com - on December 29, 2013
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