For the third time, business owners have to deal with impossible economic consequences • "We and the workers are poor, instead of closing the borders we are closed" • The restaurateurs in the periphery are angry about the ban on self-collection: "Without it we will not survive"
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State of Israel will enter the third closure tomorrow (Sunday), which, as expected, once again arouses the anger of the self-employed and their fear of big losses.
Hair stylist Ilan Margalit, who owns a hair salon in Ramat Gan, is angry and apprehensive.
He said, "Financially I am under atomic pressure. We were closed for three months. The closure of Rosh Hashanah, which was supposed to be two weeks, became a month and a half. My workers are poor. It is impossible.
"What do they get from the Knesset?"
They get 70 percent, and where are the tips?
I give them as many loans as I can and have given generously, but how much is possible?
I, too, am beginning to be financially stressed.
It's a 35-year-old business, and I've never been that historic. "
Margalit has a critique of the decision.
He said, "People are traveling, celebrating in Dubai and bringing us the diseases. Instead of closing the borders, we are being closed. It is horrible."
Another area that is about to close is the area of car washing.
According to Uri Yakubov, owner of the City Wash Express car wash: "We demand that the government exclude car washes, which provide a livelihood for more than 10,000 families across the country, just like in the second closure. There is no reason to close a business without human contact." .
The Association of Fashion Chains and the Malls Forum announced on Friday that they will open businesses on January 10, exactly two weeks from the start of the closure, in protest of the opening of other industries in the economy.
"From the beginning of the Corona crisis until today, trade in Israel has been closed for nearly five months, and at the same time the Israeli government has imported the virus from abroad.
"Also, no enforcement was carried out in the Arab sector, in the ultra-Orthodox sector, at parties and weddings, prayers on the Temple Mount were held without enforcement at all and the morbidity went up and up," they said.
The restaurateurs are frustrated
The restaurateurs are also angry about what they define as "where and where", as it was again decided to leave the deliveries but to ban self-collection, which will cause anyone who can, for one reason or another, to make deliveries, to close.
Shai Moshe, the owner of Cafe Muscat in Yeruham: "This closure has completely finished me off. We are still after an abnormal year. Anyone who has managed to stay open until now is a miracle. I do not know what will happen now, it is already difficult for me to contain it all. "Our deliveries are something that is less powerful, it is not Tel Aviv, and this directive that even a takeaway is prohibited simply ends up with restaurateurs all over the country and in the periphery in particular."
