Israel works to solve poverty crisis with increased surplus food distribution
TO THE RESCUE Food rescue organization Leket Israel recovered 2.5 million meals last year. The extra food about NIS 19.5 billion worth is mainly produced in hotels banquet halls military bases and hospitals (Photo: Leket Israel)
L ast week an Israeli nonprofit organization released a shocking report: more than one-third of all food produced in Israel is wasted a full 2.4 million tons enough to provide 64 million meals annually.
The food rescue organization Leket Israel further said that Israel ranks near the bottom of Western countries in food recovery and that the government must do more to prioritize redistributing food in a country where the poverty rate hovers at about 20 percent.
Curious to know how the chareidi community ranked in the food-waste category we turned to Leket for the data. As it turns out the chareidi community in Israel wastes far less food than the secular or national religious communities likely because the great need leads caterers and others to waste less said Joseph Gitler chairman and founder of Leket Israel.
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