The Ministry of Health has now made detailed data on the weight of children and infants accessible to the public. The data are published in the ministry's dashboard ("Data World"), which until recently was dedicated to COVID-19 data.
A quarter (24%) of two-year-olds in Israel are overweight (18.3%) and obese (5.7%) In first grade, the rate drops, and one in five children (19.6%) is overweight (11.1%) or obese (8.5%) But the numbers rise again by seventh grade, when nearly one in three children (31.4%) is defined as overweight.