1. 87% of Israelis over the age of 25 are financially dependent on their parents.
2. Dependency is not occasional, but steady.
“Last, and perhaps most importantly, by “children” the survey, in fact, means nothing of the kind: those being backed by their parents are not the twenty-something millennials we hear about in the U.S., who move back home while searching for work, but rather people in their thirties and forties, many of whom have children of their own—and even careers. The point isn’t that they’re not working, but that they can’t keep up with the steep rise in the country’s cost of living.”
This should not be taken as gloating over poor Israelis, but rather an alarming reminder that American tax dollars are not sent to Israel for its people. It is for the war machine.
Peace,
Mohamad Purqurian
This is a country that gets billions from the US, that steals from others, including oil and gas, and yet …
"eighty-seven per cent of Israelis over the age of twenty-five are financially dependent on their parents. That’s a startling figure that requires some unpacking."
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