Business owners will have to face stricter restrictions for the third time • "How long will this ping pong last?"
• Restaurant owner: "I do not have money for a delivery system"
The flea market in Jaffa.
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Gideon Markovich
Many business owners across the country are furious following the decision to close further.
Sapir Ben-Mocha, owner of a jewelry and watch store on Herzl Street in Nahariya, told Israel Today yesterday: "It will be very difficult for business in our city. We experienced difficult floods this winter after a year of two closures. We have to adjust to the situation because there is no "We have a choice. I am setting up an online store now that costs me tens of thousands of shekels. This is a big expense, especially during this period. My contract at the store is about to expire and I am considering whether to continue.
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Her son-in-law has serious complaints about decision-makers.
"They end up on the economy, especially on small businesses. You can make more restrictions and get worse with the wearing of masks, for example. It's funny that there are restrictions, but no one enforces them and therefore come to a general closure. That should not be the case and that is not the solution. Us every time, and every time bring us to the same situation.I experience beatings on the right and left in terms of sales in the business.Reaching zero shekels at the checkout after 12 hours I stand on my feet, it is inconceivable.The reason is that people no longer understand what is allowed to do, they do not "We know if they can come in and if they have money available, because every time the economy closes. They just leave money to eat. Our country ends up doing small business with the ambiguity of the situation. Despite the vaccines, it does not look like the corona is going to disappear from the horizon."
Shani Peres, who owns a fabric store on Nahalat Binyamin Street in Tel Aviv, also believes that these are serious consequences for small businesses.
"We do not believe it is happening again," she freaks out.
"We are still with the consequences of the first closure, and we try from month to month to keep our heads above water. We have not received many refunds, and this upsets the whole atmosphere. Nahalat Binyamin is a lively street and it is problematic to switch to deliveries. "Until they opened us up, they brought us back and now we will have to deal with the consequences again."
"I'm already broken"
The owner of a shawarma and falafel stand from the center of the country was furious at the apparent decision: "How long will they continue with this ping pong? I'm already broken. I'm happy for restaurant owners who can stay open for deliveries, but I and quite a few other businesses like me will have to close. I can't make deliveries as a freelancer, and the delivery apps do not work in my city and are not profitable anyway. "
He, like many of his colleagues, expects "decent compensation that will at least make us forget the fact that we close for a few weeks, but I know it won't come either, so feel completely desperate. Every customer and client who comes to the business makes me want to keep it open as long as possible." I do not make a profit, but any announcement of a closure takes me back a thousand steps. "
Shai, a private chef from Tel Aviv, says similar things.
"Again we were left with two choices, each worse than the other. Do nothing and lose money or work underground and risk fines and contagion in Corona. I am disappointed with the decision makers, but no less so with the people who were supposed to represent the chefs and restaurateurs and failed to set up a strong lobby to help financially. We hope that this is the last closure, and maybe a miracle will happen and we will also receive compensation, maybe soon we will remember this period and laugh. "