Serious failure: The 'Cheap and Big' store on Jaffa Street in Jerusalem sells chametz products, even though the 'Ultra-Orthodox Community' has granted the place 'approval to sell chametz' for all chametz. Indeed, most of the chametz products in the store are covered in plastic.
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However, at the entrance to the store there is a chametz refrigerator where various types of finished chametz ice cream are placed, some made from wheat flour.
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This is a store where quite a few Haredim shop.
On Friday, a Haredim 10 reporter came to the store, and after showing the cashier that the refrigerator was full of leavened products, she replied that she knew that the ice cream refrigerator was full of leavened products. According to her, the supervisor did not take care of it.
There he even met customers who said, after he warned them: "We wanted to buy... crazy.".
However, despite the warning from Haredim 10 reporter, from Yom Yissai until today (Sunday) afternoon, the store managers did not take care of the leaven refrigerator.
Only after the reporter contacted again, for the second time, did the store managers close the freezer.
However, there are other leavened products sold in the store besides ice cream, including marzipan.
In a conversation with the deputy manager of 'Cheap and Big' on Jaffa Street, and after we explained that there is chametz ice cream there - and that since Friday until today, it has been there. He replied: "Yes, we took out some, I have to continue taking out, the employees just went home. I took out what I can, when I have time - I will take it out. There is a mistake here.".
Haredim 10 contacted the Kashrut Supervisor who signed the 'Approval of the Sale of Chametz' certificate on behalf of the 'Ultra-Orthodox Community'.
• I understood from the cashier that you did a tour of the place and checked that there were no traces of leaven left.
""Yes, they cover it. There's some leaven left, but they put it aside. That's the sale.".
• There are ice creams and sourdough products in the refrigerator at the entrance.
""You're 100 percent right, I sell it to branches, I don't sell it to one specific branch or another. I approach the landlord, he sells 40 branches all over the country. I try to do the work.
""If I were the supervisor of the specific location, that's a different matter. I'll make it clear to them. It's good that you noticed this. I'll talk to the landlord who will instruct all the branches to make a round of the stores.".
We contacted the owner of the chain, but as of now, we have not received a response. When we receive one, it will be published.
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