The retail, catering and fashion chains are threatening: if the green label policy is not abolished, we will shut down businesses. According to the chains, since the green label policy began (attack on stores with an area of 100 square meters and more), the daily revenue of businesses has decreased by about 30% from about NIS 200 million to about NIS 140 million.
At an emergency conference attended by industry executives, Shahar Turgeman, chairman of the Chambers of Commerce Association and CEO of the Brill Group, said, “We are in favor of any move that prevents disease and against any move that has no meaning on it. “Tuesday. We are preparing to suspend trading if the situation continues to deteriorate. We will not allow a situation of open pike, we will not bleed and we will put a bandage to block arteries.”
Turgeman has raised a number of challenges for the industry following the application of the green label to commerce, while in public transport, workplaces and businesses that are defined as essential there is no similar restriction. In addition, Turgeman criticized the low response rate to vaccines. “Yesterday, 50,000 people visited the malls in Haifa. They all have vaccination stands. Out of 50,000 visitors, less than 70 were vaccinated,” said Turgeman. It is no coincidence that the Ministry of Health announced that it was folding the vaccine positions. It is hiding the failure from the public and asking that we not announce it. The same thing, the management fee, property tax and electricity remained the same, opening the business became a loss-making and bleeding process every day. We do not want compensation but to return to the outline of the purple mark (which limits the number of visitors to each store, MARH).
From December 26, a green label layout for trade will take effect, according to which entry will only be possible upon presentation of a green label (valid vaccination certificate or current negative corona test) to a store with an area larger than 100 square meters, not including stores defined as essential (Pharm, Optics, Grocery, etc. The green sign is also valid at the entrance to gyms, halls and event gardens, cultural events, museums, etc. For restaurants, bars and cafes, the green sign must be valid for sitting in the part of the building, including an outdoor seating area that is closed and covered (eg for winter closing ).
Those who are exempt from presenting a green card are children up to the age of 3 (inclusive) or children with a disability certificate. In addition, the green label obligation also applies to employees who receive an audience in businesses where customers are required to present a green label.
“Most tenants in malls will not be able to continue to exist”
Rami Shavit, the owner of Hamashbir, said, “It is impossible to deal with the green mark. We will have to lay off tens of thousands of workers at the rate of this conduct.” Shavit added: “We managed to deal with the issue of closures, but here there is an undeclared closure. Instead of punishing the people of Israel, give benefits and an incentive that will encourage people to get vaccinated. We can not quarrel with people, you make us enemies. You expose us to violence. “Let us run our business as we know it and allow us to live alongside the Corona.”
Harel Wiesel, CEO of the FOX Group, said that “there is no situation that with a green label solely on stores it is possible to end this wave. In offices, on buses, on domestic flights, on trains – there is no green label. Only malls have a green label. Take the trade every time because it’s the easiest – and it’s a mistake. “People in the Ministry of Health do not believe that if you make a green mark for a store under 100 square meters, it will reduce morbidity, so why should the public believe it?”
The representative of the small chains, Itzik Zada, owner of Sigold Jewelry, added that “since the unfounded directive that causes people not to come to the malls because of the green sign, there is a drastic decrease. Chaos. The state forgets that half of the tenants in the mall are privately and small, not all of them are world-class owners who own towers and buildings. Most tenants will not be able to survive. The Israeli government and its leader must understand Get vaccinated so far. “
“The difficulty of running restaurants is intensifying”
Tomer Moore from ‘Strong Restaurants Together’ defined the green label outline for restaurants as “a futile move, as in the past the state has taken steps that have not proven themselves, we stand here and say firmly – regulations are untenable decrees. We “Business is being hit one by one, especially after the two years of the Corona, a terrible manpower shortage and a very deep economic crisis. The difficulty of running restaurants is intensifying.”
Dear Guy, CEO of the Falafel Group in the Square, wondered “How can you ban sales to people if everyone is gathered in the same place? In our industry there are dead-living businesses and not sure anyone can understand or explain the outline. Either the whole country is closed down or everyone is allowed to make a living. I call on the country to get off this tree. “