The people of Israel did not wait for a message, if any at all, about restoring the economy and attacking the open marketing networks on Saturday. • Very long queues were recorded today in the large and local writers' offices when tens of thousands arrived and purchased from all next to the "average basket tripled"

Particularly long queues were recorded today (Saturday) at the large and neighborhood Tibet taste branches that open on Saturday, as well as on competing networks and in fact every writer, grocery store or shop open on Saturday.

Load in the Tiv Taste of Ramat Hachayal branch // Photo: Avi Mila

Prime Minister Shir Cohen's spokeswoman issued a reassuring message to the public with a view to reducing the attack on the marketing networks: "Food establishments in Israel continue to work well. There are large inventories for food chains. Importing food into Israel continues. All these create large inventories and therefore no need or justification for storing food. Also, access to food and farm chains will continue. "

Moshe Barr Good sign The Health Ministry chief contacted the public this afternoon and also tried to reassure: "The Israeli citizen writers will remain open. There is no point in storming them. The system is being prepared but in every possible script the writers will remain open. I ask the public to act responsibly and to listen to the guidelines of the competent bodies. "

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From early Friday morning until midnight, many flocked to all the major branches as well as the "neighborhood" branches and bought from everything next door. Throughout the night, employees filled the merchandise in stores. The Tiv Taste network reports that now, despite the attacks, there is no shortage of branches and that they hope there will be no egg shortage.

This morning, at eight o'clock, queues began at the large branches of Tib Tame in Netanya, Rehovot and Rishon Lezion. Hundreds of people were waiting for the branch to open at 9am. After three minutes no longer had vacations in the branch, the buyers stood between 40 minutes an hour in the long queues. At noon, the chain stopped the shipment service because they were not on load.

Yossi Shalev, vice president of trade and marketing for the Tiv Tesh network, told Israel Today: "If last Friday the average basket was NIS 300-320, yesterday the average basket was NIS 800-900. The number of visitors this Friday has increased by two and a half times the regular sixth. The people of Israel bought everything from canned goods, basic products, cheeses, pastries. Pastas, sauces and more and they load all the time. The network was held with workers and ushers to fill goods. "

The chain said that "the management and employees of Tiv Tam have been working at branches since Thursday 24/7 to arrange shelves and fill them with missing products. Also, the entire logistics department takes care of missing inventory in all branches in the country, including large and municipal branches."

The convenience stores of gas stations also had a storm on the products in stores. In the yellow network, numbers and queues are larger than usual, about 50% more than normal. The main purchases are food, fruit and vegetable products, cleaning products, canned goods and toilet paper.