Average monthly gross income per household from all sources of income reached 21,063 shekels in 2018, according to the Central Bureau of Statistics just-released preliminary findings from its 2018 Household Expenditure Survey.

That's a real increase of 4.3 percent compared to 2017. The total consumption expenditure, which includes an estimate of expenditure for housing services, amounted to NIS 16,475 per month, a real increase half a percent, compared to the previous year.