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Israelis' pockets are torn by the increase in fuel prices: "It is impossible to live at these prices" - Voila! news

2023-01-31T04:04:56.290Z


Contrary to Netanyahu's and Smotrich's promises, fuel prices will rise tonight, worrying the citizens. "Until you start dealing with the existing situation - another decision comes in that suffocates your pocket," accused Tali, a mother of two. However, some have already become indifferent and some prefer to resort to optimism: "This is not what will kill us"


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Contrary to the promises of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, the price of fuel will rise - and the citizens are angry about the damage to their pockets.

Tali, a mother of two, said today (Monday) angrily: "There is nothing that doesn't come up here. Until you start dealing with the existing situation - another decision comes in that chokes our pockets."

However, she does not point accusing fingers: "I am not in a hurry to say that this is the new government. It is still young and there are many problematic factors, maybe it will take time, I don't know."



Yakir, a renovation contractor from the Jerusalem area, came this morning especially to refuel.

"I didn't plan to come this morning but I postponed my meeting - I already know that because prices have gone up in the past, you feel it in your pocket after a long time," he explained.

"It only looks like thirty cents, in the end you have to decide what you do with the money, and your range of options becomes very narrow with these cuts."

Some have become indifferent to the price increases: "If that's what it is, we'll move forward," said Ariel, 35. "It's not what will kill us. Housing prices actually will."

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Quite a few people come and fill up for fifty shekels, some even for only twenty," gas stationer Div Jurban (Photo: Yoav Ityal, Yoav Ityal)

Gas stationer Div Jorban, 52 years old from Jasar al-Zarqa, who works at the Paz Barnitsky gas station at the Binyamina junction on Route 4, said that he has been absorbing the customers' complaints since this morning.

"Everyone has something to say. As if we are the ones to blame. We hear from the customers that they are cutting back. A week ago they reduced by ten cents, this week they increased by thirty-three. The customers say that it doesn't make sense. That you can't live at such prices," he said.

"It's not just the fuel, it adds to the increase in the prices of electricity, water, property taxes - everything. The salary is not enough. Every penny counts. You see quite a few people who come and get fuel for fifty shekels, some even only for twenty."



"It's a bunch of little kids - they say they will lower prices, and they raise them," accuses a 53-year-old resident of Hadera, who chose not to be identified by name.

"They reduce our electricity a little and increase our fuel a lot."

Some citizens take refuge in optimism.

The driver Hamudi Amash, a father of six from Jasar al-Zarqa said, "It is difficult for us with this and the other increases.

"They say they will lower prices, and raise them."

Smotrich and Netanyahu (Photo: Flash 90, Yonatan Zindel)

Later this week, the price of fuel will increase by 33 shekels, and will stand at 7.17 shekels per liter as of Wednesday morning.

"It sounds like nothing, but it accumulates and in the end it manifests itself at the end of the month and at the end of the year. It's a lot of money," said David Fahima of Or Akiva, who entered the station to fill up.

"Because of this increase, all things are going up and we can't keep up with it, so the price doesn't match today's situation. The situation doesn't allow us to refuel with these amounts," he added, "so I travel less to also buy things for the house and it limits us a bit and it doesn't stop - everything goes up And it goes up and up. We're in a problem. I'm calling on the government to take care of it, everything else is fine."



Tal Segron from Nitiv claimed that "the increase in fuel prices only proves how insignificant any government is in power" - and explained that in his eyes, at least in the southern settlements, the problem is different.

"Fuel prices are a product of an international economy, no government has direct control over it. The price of fuel does not depend on one government or another, the increase in fuel prices will cause many residents to travel by train and public transportation, and the problem is that public transportation is very inaccessible, probably due to the infrastructure works of the trains in the south".

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