Report: 1-in-5 children in Israel suffers sexual abuse
The Israel National Council for the Child's annual report, presented to Israeli President Shimon Peres Sunday morning, revealed that one in every three children in Israel is poor and one in every five has suffered some sort of sexual abuse.
The report, penned by Dr. Yitzhak Kadman, further claimed that one in every seven children suffers some sort of physical abuse and half of Israel's children are exposed to negative sexual content. Some 2,626,400 children lived in Israel at the end of 2012 – 32.9% of the general population. (Omri Efraim)
