Tarek Chouiref<\/p>\n
22 June 2026\u2022Update: 22 June 2026<\/p>\n
Israel faces a growing aging crisis amid warnings over a future welfare deficit and mounting pressure on state institutions, according to a report published Sunday by the Israeli Haaretz daily.<\/p>\n
The newspaper cited State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman as warning that Israel had failed to build a coordinated national response to its aging population despite more than a decade of official recognition of the issue as a major socioeconomic challenge.<\/p>\n
\u201cAging of the population is one of the central challenges facing the State of Israel,\u201d Englman said, describing proper care for the elderly population as a \u201cmoral and value-based obligation.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said the audit revealed \u201ca large gap between governmental recognition of the importance of the challenge and action.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to the report, around 1.3 million Israelis are currently aged 65 and above, accounting for 13% of the population, with the number expected to rise to 2 million by 2050.<\/p>\n
Englman warned that rising spending on nursing care allowances could push the National Insurance Institute into a cash deficit by 2035.<\/p>\n
The report found gaps in pensions, health care, long-term care, welfare services and retirement support systems.<\/p>\n
It also said responsibility for elderly affairs remains divided among several government bodies and institutions, without any single authority responsible for coordination, budgeting or implementation.<\/p>\n
Englman said the government had failed to fully implement any of the four main policy tracks approved in 2015 to address population aging.<\/p>\n
The measures included maintaining the financial stability of health insurance, adapting retirement policies to longer life expectancy, increasing elderly employment and improving health care and nursing systems.<\/p>\n
The comptroller also warned that Israel still lacks a comprehensive multi-year national plan to address aging, while health care, welfare and nursing systems continue to suffer from major structural gaps that could worsen in the coming decades.<\/p>\n
He added that Israel\u2019s health care system suffers from a severe shortage of geriatric specialists.<\/p>\n
Englman concluded his report by warning that Israel\u2019s population is aging rapidly while authorities remain unprepared for the economic, health and social consequences of the trend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tarek Chouiref 22 June 2026\u2022Update: 22 June 2026 Israel faces a growing aging crisis amid warnings over a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43,180804],"class_list":["post-504685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-sitekeywords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}