Corona virus affects local food market, and booth owners in Mahane Yehuda market are on the verge of despair • "People are not coming, hope we can meet it"

• Mahane Yehuda market faces the Corona // Photo: Oren Ben Hakon

The Corona Crisis also gives clear signals about the local food market, from businesses that are closing down to food additives that are considered essential, but are facing the new crowding restrictions that are driving customers en masse.

Practicing New Reality in the Mahane Yehuda Market // Photo: Yoni Rickner

One of the places that was used in mass daily traffic is the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem, which is currently suffering a severe blow. Owners of fruit and vegetable stands, and various food establishments, tell "Israel Today" the drastic drop in sales, and how to deal with the onion corona market.

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Yehuda Ohayon, a market stall owner, said: "The situation is not simple, it is complex. Everyone is confused, no one knows what he is doing."

Yakir Jacoby, who also works in the market, says of the decline in profits: "We have a decline of at least 60-70 percent. You feel it radically. There is distance from a customer, there is everything. But you still feel vulnerable, people do not come."

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