Israel – This Passover wasn’t all matzah for many Israelis. The sales of chametz products at the non-kosher Tiv Taam supermarket chain – including bagels, bread, pita bread, crackers and frozen pastries – were up 22% compared to last year, while the sales of beer jumped by 33%.
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An adjusted calculation including the beer points to a 27% rise in chametz sales compared to last year’s holiday. “This is a phenomenal increase for us,” says the chain’s Sales Manager Amit Ze’ev.
Tiv Taam, the only retail chain which was opened on all days of the holiday and sold leavened food, reported that pita bread was its second most wanted product during Passover, with sales of as many as 600,000 “loaves” of pita of different types. The most wanted product was entrecote steak, 27 tons of which were sold throughout the holiday.
According to Ze’ev, the rise in sales was recorded throughout the country. “The second holiday saw a 600% increase in our proceeds compared to a regular day,” he noted.
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All this shows is that EY is a democratic society where people have choices and some choose not to follow hilchot pesach and eat chometz. Its no big deal since there is no law requiring frei yidden to each only kosher for pseach foods.
These numbers can reflect several trends 1) more non-Jews live in Israel and 2) Jews are being turned off to traditional practice by the political hacks who call themselves the Rabbinut
Its a shame.! In the so called land of jews. They don’t follow the law of the torah ! Yes the old satmer rabbi was so right they don’t want to help yidden they want to destroy them !
how different from the story, back in Tsarist Russia, when the rebbe asked for any and all contraband, he was able to get it, but shen he asked for chometz on Pesach, there was none to be found…
The first time I was in Israel in 1984, I was shocked to see people driving on Shabbos and finding that many restaurants were not kosher, especially in cities like Eilat and even Netanya. I still remember walking to shul with my friend’s father on Shabbos and seeing some old Israelis pointing at us and laughing in Hebrew (I do think they were Jews). I still find it very disappointing that in Eretz Yisroel, the land of the Torah, there are Jewish people who know nothing about being Torah Jews and have no interest in it. Every time we read in the parasha that the land is going to spit us out if we do not keep the Torah, I get chills.