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尽管以色列是一个高度城市化的西方国家，但其贫困程度与其他发达国家相比仍有一定的差距。该报告由国家保险协会出版（NII）出版，在2009-2010年，以色列贫困水平保持相对稳定，调查8000多户家庭显示大约有20.5%的以色列家庭生活在贫困线以下的，从去年开始这个数据减少到20%。此外，以色列24.7%的居民和35.9%的儿童生活在贫困的环境中。

2009 - 2010 NII的调查数据表明，有42万的贫困家庭居住在以色列（150万人中）其中包括80.5万个孩子。调查的最新数据显示：一个工薪阶层家庭的贫困指标已从22.6%上升到23.9%。此外，在以色列的40个城镇中所做的调查数据显示，失业率最高为36%。阿拉伯人的总就业率是犹太人的就业率的68%。德鲁兹派和基督教的阿拉伯人比穆斯林的就业率更高。以色列的犹太人口中的贫困也很高。

Despite Israel being a highly urbanized western country, its poverty levels are still temperately high in comparison with other developed countries. The report published by the National Insurance Institute (NII) directs that poverty levels remained relatively stable in 2009-2010. Roughly 20.5% of Israeli families lived below the poverty line in 2008, a slight upsurge from the previous year's 20%. Moreover, 24.7% of Israel's residents and 35.9% of its children lived in needy conditions.

Data for the 2009 - 2010 NII survey indicates that 420,000 impoverished families resided in Israel (1.5 million people) including some 805,000 kids. Poverty indicators for families with a single wage-earner have risen from 22.6% during the last NII survey to 23.9% in the present one. According to a March 2011 report by Adalah done half of all Arab families in Israel lived in deficiency. Furthermore, of the 40 towns in Israel with the highest unemployment rates, 36 were Arab . The total employment degree for Arabs is 68% of the employment rate for Jews. Druze and Christian Arabs have a greater employment rate than Muslims. Poverty is also high among Israel's Haredi population, which is remote from the rest of Israeli society.

Israeli newspaper Haaretz's staff remark: 'The report also revealed another harsh reality: More and more Israelis are working, and staying poor regardless.'

Standard of Living in Numbers
Israel was ranked 47 out of 194 nations in the Annual Standard of Living Index distributed by the International Living Magazine in 2010. This index is produced by a attention of 'nine categories: cost of living, economy, culture and leisure, environment, freedom, health, infrastructure, safety and risk and climate and also its editors views' Each of these is recorded on a scale of 0 to100, with 100 marking the uppermost standard. Israel's lower scores were for infrastructure (36) cost of living (39), economy (61), environment (68) and safety (71). Its higher scores were for freedom (92), health (85), climate (84), culture and leisure (83).

Israel was ranked 15th beyond 194 nations in the Human Development Index (HDI) in 2010 ranking.

Housing
Since its establishment, the State of Israel has declared that adequate housing for all residents is a matter of the highest importance. Massive budgets have been capitalized in solving housing problems and construction is one of the country's most important industries. Residential construction accounts for a large share of the economy in terms of both investment and product. Nearly half of the status's development budget is reserved for housing. In 2009 residential construction investment expended 6.2 percent of the GNP.

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New housing development, Jerusalem

Most Israelis reside in apartments. According to Israeli Central Bureau of statistics