Grocery stores in Israel were emptied for the holidays
The shelves of grocery stores were emptied for the autumn Jewish holidays – the Israeli media reported.
According to the website of the Ynet, Jediot Ahronot newspaper the customers are looking for eggs and fresh chicken meat in vain for the week-long Feast of Tabernacles begins this year on Sunday evening.
Due to the shortage, the price of the most often used vegetables, tomatoes and cucumbers increased significantly, it is not rare that more than fifteen shekels (more than one thousand HUF) should be paid for a kilogram, though they are usually cost only one or two shekels (about one hundred HUF).
According to experts, the problem is because of the great autumn holidays: Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year and Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement were held in the middle of the week this year, so the agricultural and food workers, the slaughterhouses workers were on a holiday, so there was no harvest and packaging, shipping, either. (Shiri Zsuzsa, MTI)
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