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Tel Aviv

Israel · ILS · share price index, latest 2026-09

The city is a label: every national figure here is Israel's own, and the cost of living is one survey's answer for one adult, with its method and its year.

Poverty line

The least a household needs to spend to avoid being counted as poor.

₪4,434a month · 2024

€1,174in 2025 prices, at the ECB's 2025 average

Monthly poverty line, single person, 2024.

  • Housing: inside the total, not shown on its own: A relative income line; housing is not itemised
  • National Insurance Institute, 2024

No basket split: The line is half the median disposable income, so no basket stands behind it.

How it has changed since 2020

Tel Aviv's poverty line rose 26% from 2020 to 2024, faster than prices, while what a person in Israel spends on average rose 31%.

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Each line is 100 in 2020. NII's line from administrative data, which it uses from the 2019 report; each year is as first published, and the next report revises it by up to 1.5%.

The whole record

Stock market

At 294 in September 2026, more than two and a half times its 2015 level, in shekels and before inflation. The chart below shows what the shekel was worth in euros.

ILS per euro

3.46 shekels to the euro in October 2026, far below the August 2011 record of 5.08. A rising line is a weaker shekel.

House prices, after inflation

81% above 2010, and close to the 2022 peak.

The economy

Inflation, one year
3%
2025
Average spending per person
€2,160 a month
2025
Income per person, adjusted for local prices
$58,870
2025
Unemployment
3.5%
2025
Life expectancy
83.2 years
2024

What the economy is made of

What the country produces, which is what most people there work in; not which companies move the stock market.

  • Services 72.8%
  • Industry 17.2% (manufacturing 11.2%)
  • Agriculture 1.3%
  • Taxes less subsidies 8.7%
How this is calculated
Poverty line
Poverty line, single person is Israel's own method: 50% of median disposable income per standard person (₪3,547 in 2024); a single person counts as 1.25 standard persons. A relative income threshold with no basket behind it. It is not interchangeable with another country's survey, which is why no other city's figure sits beside it.
Prices
Adjusted to 2025 prices (+3%). Israel's consumer price index was 122.41 in 2024 and 126.13 in 2025, so × 1.0304: ₪4,568.86 in 2025 prices. The latest published CPI year is the furthest it is carried. World Bank FP.CPI.TOTL, annual average.
In euros
At 3.892726 ILS per euro, the ECB's 2025 average, the carried figure is €1,173.69. ECB euro foreign exchange reference rates.
Change since 2020
Each series divided by its 2020 value. Prices: World Bank FP.CPI.TOTL, annual average. Spending: World Bank NE.CON.PRVT.CN ÷ SP.POP.TOTL, current local currency, household final consumption divided by population, per month. NII's line from administrative data, which it uses from the 2019 report; each year is as first published, and the next report revises it by up to 1.5%.
Stock market
OECD via FRED SPASTT01ILM661N, monthly, 2015 = 100, in ILS and before inflation, on a logarithmic scale: equal distance is equal percentage change. Latest 2026-09.
ILS per euro
ECB euro foreign exchange reference rates, monthly average from 1999, on a logarithmic scale. A rising line is a weaker ILS. Latest 2026-10.
House prices, after inflation
BIS via FRED QILR628BIS, quarterly, 2010 = 100. Indexed to Israel's own 2010, so only the direction compares across countries, never the level. Latest 2026-Q1.
Sources

National Insurance Institute, Poverty and Income Inequality 2024 · poverty line by family size, 2024: one person (1.25 standard persons) ₪4,434; per standard person ₪3,547 · retrieved 30 Oct 2026

World Bank NE.CON.PRVT.CD ÷ SP.POP.TOTL, ECB annual average · World Bank NY.GNP.PCAP.PP.CD · World Bank SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS · World Bank SP.DYN.LE00.IN · World Bank FP.CPI.TOTL.ZG · World Bank NV.AGR.TOTL.ZS · World Bank NV.IND.TOTL.ZS · World Bank NV.SRV.TOTL.ZS · World Bank NV.IND.MANF.ZS · derived: 100 less agriculture, industry and services. Taxes less subsidies is 100 less the three sectors.