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The protest of the self-employed is renewed, and this time their fear grows: "We realized that there is no one to trust"

His uncle closed his hummus shop in Ashdod and moved to work from home, Yossi shut down 5 stores with unused goods in his warehouses, and Albina was left with debts from the restaurant she closed, despite the government grant.

The self-employed will demonstrate and demand significant assistance from the government.

"It's time for deeds without words"

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Dana Yarkatzi

Thursday, October 22, 2020, 6:23 p.m.

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Corona's restrictions on the business sector and the education system have not been fully released with the start of the first phase of the quarantine program, and today (Thursday) evening a demonstration of self-employed people is expected in Rabin Square under the slogan "Fighting for livelihood".

As part of the protest, hundreds of business owners and companies will demonstrate the economic damage they are experiencing as a result of the Corona crisis.

According to the organizers of the demonstration, "The most detached government in the history of the State of Israel has destroyed the economy and small businesses. Living enterprises are collapsing, businesses are closing. People are bankrupt, with no future and no hope. No budget, no planning, no responsibility, no personal example, reforms and no policy." .

They demand the immediate opening of all businesses as part of the traffic light layout, a 25% right to compensation starting in March and raising it retroactively, the appointment of an economic projector who understands the business sector and a reduction in differential property taxes.

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Dudu Cohen, the owner of Hummus Cohen in Ashdod, closed the business after three and a half years.

These days he works from home and continues to produce chickpeas for deliveries.

"The corona dismantled us as they say. We could not stand this madness. I was not entitled to almost any grants, and that is, we managed the first wave to pass by tooth and nail."

He said when he realized the country was heading for a second wave, he gave up.

"The first wave was a nightmare for us, we had to release all the workers and start operating everything on our own to try to save as much as possible. No one came forward, no homeowners of the property, no body came and supported, everything was in talk. I realized there was no one to trust "It's become too tough. In the end a person you also want to be in the arms of his family, but you can not function when you are sucked into the problems of the business. You fight and do not get the result."

"Once they opened the economy at the end of May, there was a feeling that there was going to be a boom of work," Cohen added.

"People missed but it didn't really happen, maybe for a day or two and then it stopped. It not only was in my business, it was in all the food business. You see the stop and you see that people have no money."

"You see the stop and you see that people have no money."

Cohen and the homemade chickpeas

However, beyond the financial difficulties of his clients, the increase in morbidity also worried Cohen.

"Beyond what they want to buy and order, you turn around and see the lack of care, lack of enforcement, it's a matter of time until everything explodes inside us. It was clear to me that they were going to close second, and as soon as I realized that I had to fold the basta. We are not tycoons. "In a family business. There is no understanding here of the rich people versus the poor people."

For Cohen, the demonstration today is important.

"It's time for deeds without speech. There is a complete detachment of power from the needs of the people, irrational decisions in which a child can take vegetables from the vegetable, but not from the restaurant and falafel. It is not perceived things. "We are the last on the list of recipients, 'We closed your business but you still owe all the obligations.'

"I know colleagues who are just crushed."

Solomon in his clothing store

Yossi Salomon is the owner of "Emek", a business that imports children's and babies' clothes.

His five stores have closed due to restrictions, but he is waiting for the moment when he can reopen them.

According to him, the marketing chains that are approved to operate are taking advantage of the situation and expanding their supply of clothing and toys, while he is forced to close while stuck with goods he will no longer use.

"We are a fairly old company that works in the market. Our stores in Ness Ziona and Tel Aviv are more than 200 meters. We look at all the big chains, whose size is the same as mine, why can they open and I can not?"

Salomon added: "I did not ask to bring a hundred people into the store, but at least five people can have economic activity. We miss the season, every day I lose a lot of money, I sit idle at home and other chains that did not deal in clothing suddenly put toys, clothes, shoes "It creates a huge pit for us and that's one of the reasons we're going to a demonstration tonight."

"I know colleagues who are just crushed," he said.

"Sitting with piles of returning checks in their businesses, looking at the amount of merchandise they produced and bought and they don't know what to do with it. I do not find the logic in the decision that an electrical store next to me can be open and I do not."

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"Every day getting up and moving on, it's really hard."

Leaving (Photo: "Morning News with Niv Raskin", Keshet 12)

In contrast to Solomon, Albina Bezov, the former owner of the "Boccio" restaurant in Tel Aviv, was forced to close. "I set up the restaurant two and a half years ago on my own with loans," she said. "I held without partners and came to 'Break Ivan', until the order came to close the restaurants. I could not change the whole essence of the restaurant and the essence of the food, so I had to close and send all the workers to the Knesset."

Since leaving, she has not worked, and is in difficulties "Today I work for a real estate management company, but it's very difficult for me to deal with. I was on the verge of a nervous breakdown, I even got to a hospital, my health is really bad." According to her, from the state she received a small compensation, which helped her pay salaries to the workers and reach agreements with the suppliers, but not to close the debts. "Now I try to work on some jobs because the debts are really not small, but every day getting up and moving on is really hard."

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