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Store and mall owners fear tight restraint, declaring "We will not close again"

The Ministry of Health is considering re-imposing restrictions due to the increase in morbidity in Corona, but the store owners who recently opened their businesses did not have time to recover.

They blame the government's conduct, making it clear that they are not responsible for the disease.

"If they shut us down again, 350,000 people who work in the malls will return to the hospital."

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Sonia Gorodisky

Wednesday, 16 December 2020, 22:28

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In the video: Business owners fear closure of stores following crossing the morbidity threshold (Photo: Sonia Gorodisky)

Just a week and a half ago, malls across the country opened all stores after nearly three months of being closed.

The malls were opened under the restrictions of the purple mark, which limits, among other things, the number of customers in each store as well as in the mall itself.

In contrast, street shops opened earlier, more than a month ago.

Since they opened, most of them say that the economic difficulties have worsened over the past year due to the closures and restrictions, and fear that they will soon have to close the business once again.

Senior Ministry of Health officials say there will be no choice but to impose additional restrictions on the economy, which include closing trade, due to the spike in morbidity and crossing the threshold of 2,500 verified patients a day.

The decision on a partial closure or "tightening restraint" is expected to be made soon, but no date has yet been set for the Corona Cabinet meeting to discuss the issue.

Moshe Rosenblum

, CEO of Ofer Malls, threatened not to close the malls in the group if it was decided to impose another closure. He explained that the malls have essential stores, and that they would find ways to keep the businesses open. , Rosenblum clarified. "It does not make sense to close the trade in the country after we have proven that the disease is not from the malls.

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"The morbidity is not from the malls."

Ayalon Mall in Ramat Gan in the reopening pilot (Photo: Reuven Castro)

According to Rosenblum, trade provides the state with revenues worth NIS 1.4 billion a week in taxes.

He noted that he sees no justification for closing the malls: "A closed mall is a safe mall, we adhere to all guidelines, I do not understand how such a thing can be closed."

Beyond that, Rosenblum pointed an accusing finger at the situation across the country.

"The state does not pay attention to what is happening at the airport, in the squares in the main cities, in the open markets. If there is another closure, 350,000 people working in the mall industry will have to return to the Knesset," he clarified.

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"They will sell oranges or mandarins and thus become vital."

Ofer Malls CEO Moshe Rosenblum (Photo: Reuven Castro)

"The corona has exacerbated the situation, where do they want to go?"

Ilan Shoshan

, owner of the "Ilan Designs" store in south Tel Aviv, said that the business situation has not yet recovered from the previous closure, with the following restrictions already in place.

"We tried to raise our heads a little, but it's not that now we's buses of people who want to buy, but at least make a little bit of a living.

He is upset at the thought of another closure, and blames part of the blame for the flights leaving as scheduled.

"People are coming back from abroad with Corona and we are the ones who are supposed to pay the price and have to suffer because of them.

" "Why close us?" Shushan wondered.

That is what will happen. "According to him, so far he has suffered losses of close to NIS 800,000." Even before the corona, it was not easy.

But the corona has exacerbated the situation even further, so where do they want to go? ".

"They want to shut us down because of other people."

Shoshan (Photo: courtesy of the photographer)

Shushan explained that the government assistance intended for businesses during the Corona period is not at all enough to compensate for the losses and all the expenses.

"They gave me 15,000 shekels and another 7,000 to cover expenses, and everyone wants to get money: the store owner asks me for the rent and the banks."

He added that "I have four children at home, my wife went out to work as a kindergarten assistant following the situation because there is no choice. But it is also not enough."

"I am a loyal citizen of the country and I have lost a considerable amount of money and there are many more like me," Shoshan clarified.

"Do you want to shut us down because of other people? Give me the money I made last year. I have no problem sitting at home. What do they want us to be their judges?"

"The economic distress is very great, the uncertainty is high"

Dan Pilz

, CEO and co-owner of Dizengoff Center, told Walla! NEWS that the mall has not yet returned to full operation in the pre-Corona period. On the day of the interview, the huge mall was relatively deserted, which is not typical of Hanukkah in previous years. limitations character trait. the pool and gym, who brought more visitors, not yet active.

"again talking about closed without showing real data and real explanation, absurdity shout to heaven," complained Filch. "what and why you want to prevent over livelihood of tens of thousands of workers and businesses?

Crush them.

"Once again we want to close the trade and give a huge punishment to the people," he explained.

"Business here without a livelihood."

CEO and co-owner of Dizengoff Center, Dan Pilz (Photo: Sonia Gorodisky)

"Decisions are not made in an informed, scientific and well-founded manner"

"In the last eight to nine months the businesses here have no livelihood, there are workers here who have not yet returned to work because the businesses were afraid to bring them back. We only returned now, but the numbers did not return to what was on the eve of Corona.

"Uncertainty is high - businesses do not know whether to order goods, whether to return workers, workers do not know if they will have a job."

"Decisions are not made intelligently, scientifically and based on job analysis, but all kinds of decisions for foreign reasons. We refuse to think about the possibility of closing the trade again without a justifiable and justified reason."

"The numbers did not return to what was on the eve of the Corona."

Ofer Mall in Petah Tikva, this week (Photo: Oren Keller)

Pilz clarified that "the damage is not only economic. The health damage in the closure is also enormous - people are depressed, consume more alcohol and drugs, there is domestic violence, tens of thousands of teens who dropped out of school and will not return, all of these are serious health damage."

According to him, the damage from further closure of the businesses is greater than the damage that could be caused if they were not closed, also from a health point of view.

"In the center in the days when they are being repaired, there are about 320 businesses, large and main businesses such as cinemas, gyms and pools have not returned. All the food businesses have not returned to normal," Pilz added.

"On closing days, maybe a third or a quarter of the workers in the center are employed. There are about 1,500 workers who do not know whether or not they will return to work. In the entire industry, there are 300,000 workers."

"Everyone lives from moment to moment"

Nissan Feynman

, CEO of the Nahariya Mall, said that moving the mall and shutting down each time is not an easy task. "These are systems that work, but mostly the people.

People who have just returned from sickness have not even gone through two weeks and they no longer know what will happen to them tomorrow, whether they will return to sickness and when it will happen.

Everyone lives from moment to moment. "

His mall did not participate in the malls pilot, so it only opened when the Corona Cabinet decided to expand the pilot - which was defined as a success. Tonight, now no one knows when this 'tightened restraint' will begin.

It is difficult and not easy, but we will respect any decision. "

"Our workers are no longer a statistic in the unemployment graph."

Nahariya Mall CEO, Nissan Feinman

Shahar Turgeman

, chairman of the Association of Retail, Fashion and Catering Chains, wondered how "after three months of trading being closed and a week after it opened do you want to close it again?" He said, "It is clear to everyone that trading does not contribute to disease. "The returnees from abroad, the abandonment in the Arab sector, the weddings, nature parties, the prayers on the Temple Mount and all the places that the state has abandoned."

He announced that from now on, business owners will stop paying the price for government failures.

"We will not once again send half a million workers to the employment bureau," Turgeman declared.

"For us, our employees are no longer a statistic in the unemployment graph, they are people who have to support families. No store will close, no street store, no store in the Power Center and no store in the mall."

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