{"id":1677,"date":"2014-10-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.leket.org\/world-food-day-in-israel\/"},"modified":"2020-06-23T09:49:38","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T09:49:38","slug":"world-food-day-in-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leket.org\/en\/world-food-day-in-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"World Food Day in Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"graytxt2\">October 2014 &#8211; About &#8220;World Food Day&#8221; in Israel.<\/div>\n<div class=\"dynamiccontent\">\n<p><span dir=\"LTR\">World Food Day was created by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and is celebrated annually on October 16<sup>th<\/sup> across 150 countries around the world to raise awareness of nutritional security.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"LTR\">In Israel, 40% of food produced is wastefully thrown away across the supply chain of distribution from farmers to packing houses, and kitchens of restaurants and the catering industry. Leket Israel prevents this waste by rescuing food that would otherwise be disposed and distributes it to the needy across the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"LTR\">As part of the organization&#8217;s vision, Leket Israel works to reduce the amount of food wasted especially seeing as over 1.5 million of Israelis live below the poverty line and suffer from nutritional insecurity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"LTR\">Leket Israel would like to call upon the public to join us in our mission of preventing food waste and raise awareness of this dire issue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"LTR\">World Food Day 2014 coincided with the Succot Holiday and therefore has been postponed in Israel and will be held on November 4, 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.leket.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Katif-046_french.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><strong><span dir=\"LTR\">HAPPENINGS ON WORLD FOOD DAY IN ISRAEL: <\/span><\/strong><span dir=\"LTR\">This is the second year that Leket Israel will honor this day through various activities in order to increase awareness of Leket Israel&#8217;s work in resolving the following pressing issues:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The growing problem of global food waste with 40% of food being unnecessarily destroyed each year<\/li>\n<li>Lack of healthy food for a growing number of the world&#8217;s population<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This year on November 4, 2014,The Knesset of Israel will host a day with discussions across all committees relevant to the topics surrounding World Food Day.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout this special day, a central event will be hosted by the Chairman of the Knesset along with 3 Knesset members from different parties in partnership with Leket Israel. 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