John Gal and Shavit Madhala met with Dafni Moshiov from the Ministry of Welfare and Social Affairs, and Amit Yaron from Ashalim-JDC

On July 13, Prof. John Gal, Taub Center Principal Researcher and Chair of the Taub Center Welfare Policy Program, and Taub Center Researcher Shavit Madhala, welfare researcher at the Center, met with Dafni Moshiov, who supervises the uptake of benefits in the Ministry of Welfare and Social Affairs, and Amit Yaron, who heads community programs at Ashalim-JDC. Discussion at the meeting focused on welfare and uptake of rights and benefits, and in particular the high level of take-up of universal benefits like old-age benefits and the children’s allowance versus take-up rates for other benefits like unemployment benefits. Research on the subject of the Enrollment of Arab Children in Supervised Daycare and selected data from the State of the Nation Report 2021 were also presented.