The growing cry: Merchants and restaurateurs at a loss • David Zakri, owner of a coffee business and father of five: "I have no compensation and I fall between the cracks" • In the food industry desperate: "Dreamed not to open us"
The third closure officially began yesterday, and as expected, businesses across the country are worried about the economic difficulties that will accompany the impending period.
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David Zakri, owner of the "Aromatic, World of Coffee" business in Nahariya, which offers coffee beans and coffee machines, told "Israel Today" about the many difficulties that accompany a small business when the closure begins.
He said, "I was fired from my job at the beginning of the corona, I got unemployment benefits, and then someone wanted to sell a coffee business, which I used to do, and I told him 'it suits me.' I did not think there would be any more closures after the first closure. In that 12 years. I received an unemployment benefit of NIS 6,500 and gave it up. Since we entered the second closure and now the third closure, and I now fall between the chairs. I, as a new business, do not deserve any compensation as a self-employed person, I do not deserve unemployment ".
Zakri is accompanied by personal difficulties, which he faces.
He said, "I am a widower and have five children. I have set up a website. If I have orders, I also go out for deliveries. What will I cry for Mr. Gorley? I'm trying to work."
Itzik Guamis, the owner of "Tabun Fatma" from Zarzir, also lamented the many difficulties.
According to Guamis, "I closed the business today for the entire period of the closure, because the shipping income does not cover the expenses, and I took the workers out to Khalat."
Yaki Kabir, owner of the "Serpina" restaurant in Tel Aviv, is also frustrated: The West Bank has every possible value when it comes to treating the self-employed.
The situation must change. "
Meanwhile, Israelis stocked up on food closures. However, since consumers understood that unlike the first closure, food chains as vital businesses would be open, there was no onslaught on storage products as in the first and second closures.