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JERUSALEM JTA What began in Israel in June as a rebellion against Facebook focused on the cost of cottage cheese up and transformed in July in tent encampments protesting against soaring real estate costs, has since turned into Israeli social movement on a large scale against the high cost of living in the Jewish state.
Tent filled Tel Aviv Rothschild Boulevard to marches in Beersheva, hundreds of thousands of Israelis have participated in a demonstration or another moving target increased housing prices and cheese at any childcare expenses children and gas not to mention salaries.
All this begs the question how much is it to live in Israel.
A close examination of some key indicators show that compared to the US and Europe, Israeli costs of living are a Mixed Wages are lower, but also the costs of healthcare Consumer goods and services costs almost double those in the United States, owning a car can run about six times compared to wages.
So how Israelis make Israeli retailers and banks offer easy credit on everything from big purchases as the summer holidays for purchases of everyday like groceries; all can be paid in monthly installments The result is that many Israelis are perpetually in debt and are increasingly frustrated by their inability to cover the costs with their monthly paychecks.
Here's a closer look at some of the costs of living in Israel.
The most expensive places and to live in Israel are at the center of the country, where the vast majority of the population lives and works.
According to figures from the real actual company RE MAX Israël, apartment prices in central Tel Aviv 5714 race 7142 per square meter in Jerusalem East Talpiot of the suburbs and Kiryat Hayovel offer housing from 4285 to 5714 per meter square, while prices in the tonier neighborhoods of Baka, the German colony and Rechavia range from 7000 to 8571 per square meter.
This means that in Baka or the German Colony, a typical two-bedroom apartment starts at 428,571, according to Alyssa Friedland, a broker for RE MAX In the peripheral neighborhoods, some of which are built on captured territory from Jordan in the 1967 Six- Day War, a two bedroom apartment takes about 343,000 according to figures RE MAX, two-bedroom apartments in Beersheva, Haifa, Hadera and Afula cost between 143000 and 286000.
Mortgage rates are about 4 5 percent, according to Friedland, but the required down payment is usually about 40 percent.
Young couples are getting money from their parents because they don t usually have savings like that, she said.
As the economist Daniel Doron noted recently in the Wall Street Journal, A small apartment can cost the average Israeli worker 12 years in annual salary.
In Israel, the average salary is about 2572 per month, and the average income of a tfamily with two employees is about 3428 per month, according to the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics.
Teachers and nurses earn abound one month in 1666, making Israeli teachers' salaries among the lowest in the world, according to a recent report by the International Organization for Cooperation and Economic Development OECD.
Business managers, computer engineers and lawyers have some of the highest median salaries in Israel A lawyer with experience of five years can make 5500-6500 a month, and top associates earn about 8571 per month, depending Dudi Zalmanovitsh, who heads the law Tel Aviv consultancy GlawBAL technology professionals are among the best paid in Israel, with technical writers and software engineers who earn between 2,500 and 3,500 per month, and managers making up 10 000 month.
The doctors, most of whom work in clinics and hospitals, earn 6000 to 7000 per month, unless they also have a private practice.
With a tax rate of 78 percent on new cars, a lack of competition in the market of imports and higher car insurance costs not to mention the price of owning a car can be one gas of the most expensive things for an Israeli.
A Honda Civic, which has a sticker price of about 16,000 in the United States, Israel 33000 cost gas costs more than 8 per gallon.
Like most Israelis earn about one third of their US counterparts, Israelis may spend more than six times their monthly salaries on car ownership as the average American.
Alternative public transport is cheap compared to Israel, although the public transport network is much less developed here than in America or Europe.
A small but growing number of Israelis commute by train, but most need to take a bus to complete their travel buses are subsidized and therefore relatively cheap in cities, bus tickets cost about 1 51 para ride or 65 for a monthly pass.
health care socialized system of Israel is considered among the best and taxes pay the share of costs in the world after the lion figures from the National Insurance Institute, the costs of health care deducted the average salary are between 3 percent and 5 5 percent, said Dr. Michael Cohen, who runs an HMO in the coastal city of Netanya.
With a universal health care system run by private companies, all citizens are entitled to the same uniform system be independent or employed by a company, every citizen pays a basic health insurance rates in one of the four HMOs which are heavily regulated by the government and subsidized.
For Israelis who need to consult the doctor, require fertility treatment or visit the emergency room, the extra costs are minimal Drugs are cheaper in Israel than in the United States because they are subsidized by HMO.
Many Israelis are choosing to expand their coverage with private health insurance that offers more access to private care or more comprehensive private insurance coverage costs a fraction of what it costs in the States.
The working poor are much better here because if someone gets sick, they still receive a full treatment of the hospital which would be very expensive in U S, Cohen said.
Israel is more like Europe than America on taxes The higher rate of income tax is 45 percent, it was 50 percent until 2003 Value added tax, or VAT , which amounts to a sales tax, is 16 percent that's considered regressive because rich and poor pay the same rate.
The tax rate income average Israeli pays 20 5 percent 1 percent of employees who earn an average of 19,000 per month, pay a tax rate of about 40 percent of revenue 1 percent of workers independent super-rich who gross average of 121,000 per month pay 26 percent tax on income.
Education is an area in which the Israelis are paying much less than Americans.
The tuition fees at leading public universities of Israel is about 2714 per year, largely thanks to government subsidies in private colleges least known of Israel, tuition costs about 8571 each year compared to other developed countries, Israel ranks eighth among the OECD's 26 countries for tuition.
Those paying tuition for Jewish day school in America would save a bundle in public schools if secular Israel, Orthodox or Modern Orthodox haredi are free, however, parents have to pay a service fee for tours and special events, are responsible for the cost of school transport and have to pay pounds.
The increasing number of semi-private schools that offer programs pluralistic, democratic or annual special religious charge tuition fees ranging from 800 to 1600, and boarding charge 3,000 to 5,000 per year.
Because the day of Israel's traditional primary school is short, often ending before 2 pm many parents are paying money for child care programs in the afternoon or after-school activities .
The most expensive part of child rearing can be a nursery for the under-3 together Some day care centers cost 630 per month for private child day care Once children turn 3 they can take benefit of the public school system and day care centers that also support little as 257 a month for a six-day, six-hour program.
social protest movement in Israel began with an investigation report by the company Globes per day on food prices Globes found that prices of basic food products were two to three times higher in Israeli stores that in other Western countries.
White cheese container Rates 8oz 1 68; hummus April 54 tariff book; 2 liters of orange juice in a country that exports oranges costs 6 54; 2 pounds of rice cost 1 94; and a container 13 ounces of Israeli Osem soup nuts costs April 54 more than it costs in American stores that import the soup nuts from Israel At 6 ounces of sunscreen Israeli-made spray can cost about 40.
Prices above that the middle class and the lower class can afford, said Rami Levy, who has 22 supermarkets across the country, he attributed the increase in Israeli supermarkets chains who plot to set prices.
I started my business in order to sell to my customers at wholesale prices, said Levy, who started with a stall in the open air Machane Yehuda market in Jerusalem I wanted to be able to buy what they needed and still have money left at the end of the month.
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