The Shabbat struggle in Tel Aviv reaches Bnei Brak: About a week ago, the Tekhal's food chain opened, which is jointly owned by businessmen Aryeh Wolfson and Dodi Weissman.
Weissman is the owner of the AM:PM chain, which is also open on Shabbat, and for this reason, other of his businesses, such as the Shefa Shuk chain, were boycotted by the Haredi community in the past. When the chain opened in Bnei Brak, there were voices of protest demanding that Weissman's businesses be excluded.
Last Friday, the informant also joined the fight, launching an attack against Tekhal's, with the newspaper linking the struggle of the Tel Aviv grocery store owners to the struggle against the Bnei Brak chain. According to the informant, the Tel Aviv grocery store owners are complaining about this, as it is impossible for the Haredim to buy or advertise the businesses of the man who is pursuing them in Tel Aviv through the AM:PM chain of stores. .
During the article, an interview was shown with Yaakov Bremer, chairman of the Container Owners Forum, who spoke out strongly against Tekhal's.
However, the latter denies the allegations and says that he was not interviewed by the newspaper at all on the subject. The Hamodia newspaper reported that Mr. Bremer was interviewed at length by them, and they stand behind the publication.
Lawyer David Shob, who handled the petition of the Tel Aviv grocery store owners, says: "A consumer boycott is acceptable and sometimes even required. The same applies to the struggle against Weissman's other businesses, however, this has nothing to do with the struggle of the Tel Aviv grocery store owners, which is a social struggle and not a religious struggle.".
The lawyer adds: "As we know, success has many fathers. It is natural that factors that are not connected to it try to climb the struggle and try to recruit it for their own purposes. In this case, the connection simply does not exist. It would be good if those factors let the container owners manage their own struggle and did not burden their humble backs with other struggles that have nothing to do with the container owners.".
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