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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...benefits, but Israel's middle class was severely hit. As a result of devaluation and lower govern ment subsidies for basic commodities, prices of most items last week were in creased anywhere from 35% to 200%. The cost of sugar, which already was 21.60 per lb., tripled, and milkwent up 60%. Egg prices jumped 64%, bread 100%, meat 35%. Bus fares will rise 60%, and gasoline 64%, to $1.86 per gal. Fuel oil for industry zoomed up 117%. The standard of li ving of most middle-class Israelis, as measured by prices and income, overnight dropped about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: Suddenly, Alarmingly Poorer | 11/25/1974 | See Source »

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