Three years after October 7: 1,029 civilians killed, 40,000 recognized as disabled, and the cost of war in hundreds of billions of shekels

Three years after October 7, 2023, can be summed up in a few large numbers. 1,029 civilians killed. 1,318 military personnel and security forces killed. More than 87,000 civilians recognized as victims of hostile actions. More than 40,000 have already received a state-established degree of disability.

Author: Alexander Khmelnitsky

And then the billions begin: more than 58 billion shekels in payments to reservists, over 9 billion to victims, families of the deceased, and hostages, billions to evacuees and those who lost their jobs. The Bank of Israel separately estimates the budgetary cost of the war in the hundreds of billions of shekels.

But if you simply add all this up into a long column of numbers, you get statistics and people almost disappear. Therefore, I tried to understand what exactly the state counts in these reports, whom different departments account for separately, and what today's data actually say about Israel three years after the morning of October 7, 2023.
1,029 civilians killed — and here it's important to understand who is counted

Bituach Leumi — the Israeli National Insurance Institute, which is responsible, among other things, for payments to civilian…

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