62% of school-age children and 85% of pregnant women in Israel have low iodine intakes, according to the country's first national iodine survey. Government funding and legislation, and a government-regulated program of salt or food iodization, are essential to reducing the deficiency, which poses a high risk of impaired neurological development.
From left, researchers Dov Gefel, Yaniv Ovadia, Aron Troen and Jonathan Arbelle
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/03/170327083438.htm