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They made a decent living.

Today they are queuing for a hot meal in shekels

Since the start of the corona crisis, there has been a 20% increase in the opening of cases against the background of income problems and poverty.

The figure is expressed in a tangible and difficult way, when standing on the sidewalk in Tel Aviv, outside the restaurant of the "Leshuva" association, among hundreds of hungry Israelis.

"There are also families and children who come, every day passing the millennium"

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Maya Horodnichano

Saturday, January 16, 2021, 3:50 p.m.

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In the video: Shops closed in Tel Aviv following the Corona crisis (Photo: Reuters, Edited by Amit Simcha)

Against the background of the closure, when most of the shops are closed and fewer passers-by are walking down the street, the queue on Chelnov Street in Tel Aviv in the early afternoon becomes particularly noticeable.

These are not Corona tests.

Those standing are waiting to get a hot meal.

Some will pay a shekel for it, and others who can not even pay it at all at the restaurant of the "Leshuva" association.

Since Corona the restaurant has been working on the "takeaway" method.

Nur, one of the workers at the place, constantly makes sure that the waiters keep their distance according to the stripes marked on the sidewalk while wearing masks.

Giora, one of the queues, says that recently he had to travel more because since the corona he has not been able to travel abroad where he worked as a mountaineering instructor. "Now it's harder.

" "We distributed 1,400 dishes on Monday," says Ravit Reichman, who has run the restaurant for about five years. "Every now and then she knows well. Now, every day they go through the millennium. She says they see new faces all the time. And describes a case where she heard a boy tell his father that food was being distributed. "It's hard for them to do that and come here.

And the fact that we approach and their articles that they can access it and wow them, freeing them to brake. "

Even as the middle of the week was to see old and young, parents come with their children alongside the workers, homeless people and others. Among them, says Reichman, although administrators banquet halls that were traditionally Bring leftover food to be distributed, and now need food themselves.

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The number of volunteers at the place increased significantly during the Corona period.

Leshuva Restaurant in Tel Aviv, January 2021 (Photo: Reuven Castro)

In addition to the needy, the number of volunteers at the place also increased significantly during the Corona period, especially of those who were taken to the Khalat. One of them is Karin Ditch who worked for 37 years at a hotel in Tel Aviv. She comes six days a week and works in the kitchen.

I go out every day at 07:15 until the end of the day, and it's also mentally good for me, I feel smooth now, "she says, adding that she did not know the place until Corona." Not everyone here is homeless, there are also families and children who come. " Picard, a Social Security volunteer who has been coming for years to help exercise rights, says that “everyone has a story.

They were people who supported the families with real respect.

Today, the honor is gone and we are trying to give them back the honor. "According to him, these are many people who are transparent for the state.

Nira Lipka, the association's vice president, notes that they also see an increase in food requests at their restaurant in Karmiel.

"There is more appeal from families with children, younger people. If in the past it was more new immigrants, the elderly, now there are more families who have suddenly lost their livelihood, and we have expanded the activity of food baskets," she says, adding that additional frameworks would have been opened. A street in the Corona period.

"We have expanded the activity of the food baskets."

The queue outside the Leshuva restaurant in Tel Aviv, January 2021 (Photo: Reuven Castro)

The aggravation of the situation can also be clearly seen in the data of the welfare offices in the local authorities.

According to data provided by the Ministry of Labor and Welfare at the request of Walla!

NEWS, 1,974 cases were opened in November amid income and poverty problems, 453 of them of people who did not previously need welfare services.

This is compared to 1,287 cases in October and 1,379 in September.

In total, in the months since the start of the corona, there has been a 20% increase in the opening of cases compared to last year, when since August the gaps were particularly large.

In July the number of cases opened was lower due to the strike of social workers.

Among families of children and adolescents at risk, there is also a jump in the need for assistance with bill payments and assistance with rent, according to a survey conducted by lenders of 1,975 families as part of the Jewish Agency's "Open Future" program.

According to the data they collected, in the first closure 26% of families reported that they needed help paying bills, and now 49% asked for help.

In addition, 37% sought rent assistance, which did not increase among families in the first closure.

Also, 71% sought food assistance.

This is despite the fact that there has been an increase in the number of parents employed in relation to the first closure.

Ruthi Sheinfeld, CEO of "Opening Futures", said that "these are families for whom our daily assistance and support is very significant and suddenly they have to deal alone with the situation that has been forced upon them.

Parents who have made a decent living suddenly find themselves in a slump, or with a drop in income, alongside a reality of rising consumption at home. They have to take care of meals for children at lunch, when they were used to feeding at school, it is a big expense for them and has a lot of economic significance. We must also provide for them financially and in the program with the help and support of the Jewish Agency and Keren Hayesod.

"We have seen a very worrying turnaround in the gray market"

"The Corona is very challenging for us," says Nurit Weisberg Nakash, director of the Family and Child Welfare Service at the Ministry of Labor, Welfare and Social Services.

She notes that "the corona pulls everyone down, weakens the weak and overthrows the middle class. This is one of the severe effects of the corona. Those who are injured are people who have worked in jobs called 'can be fired'."

She explains that they are particularly concerned with exercising rights because many people do not know and are exposed to the rights they deserve.

"When a family comes to us, they go through a conversation that allows them to try and identify what the focus is and what to deal with. A person in crisis or distress can and is welcome to contact the local authority's social services department. And it will be possible to think together what alternatives there are to improve.

1/5 food baskets from the "Leshuva" association in Tel Aviv, January 2021

Weisberg Nakash further adds that one of the growing phenomena during the Corona period is loans from the gray market.

"We have seen a very worrying turnaround in the gray market. There are a lot of gray market publications, and there are families who get entangled over their heads with the gray market," she says.

Following this, the Ministry of Welfare's 118 hotline also placed an answer that deals with debts, and so far there have been 210 inquiries on economic issues.

"Invite people who have difficulties or got into debt, just before entering the gray market, to stop and consult with someone who is an expert in the field of family economics debts to do some thinking before you. Anyone who feels entangled, it does not replace legal advice, but sometimes talk to someone expert. On the phone, that could stop him from telling the gray market. "

The chairman of the local authorities' welfare services organization, Tami Barsheshet, also referred to the burdens this week and said that they are expected to grow even after the end of the health crisis.

The government must understand that along with the severe health and economic crisis we are also in a social crisis, one of the most difficult we knew, and long after the health crisis disappears we will remain with the social crisis and therefore we all have a duty to be prepared and ready to address it.

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