""Stop being silent!": Yeshivas and stores join the boycott of 'Angel'"

May 4, 2023   

The participation of Amar Bar Lev, chairman of the board of directors of the Angel Bakery chain, in the "Equality in Burden" demonstration near the Ponivez Yeshiva and the home of Maran Rosh HaYeshiva, Rabbi Edelstein, continues to stir up the Haredi street, and the call to boycott the bakery chain is rising. Where do you want your 'discounted apartment'? The guide to participating in the programs Media personality Moshe Glasner provided a glimpse into the WhatsApp group of directors of large institutions in the Haredi sector, which indicates that they are feverishly looking for alternative sales agents for Angel Bakery. At present, several large yeshivahs have already announced their boycott of the chain: Yeshiva 'Hebron Givat Mordechai' in Jerusalem, one of the largest yeshivahs in the Haredi Torah world, has informed 'Angel Bakery' of the cancellation of its contract with it, following the incitement of the chairman of the board of directors. The secretary of the 'Netiv Hadaat - Kaplan' yeshiva also informed 'Angel Bakery' of the cessation of orders from the bakery. Following in its footsteps were also the 'Netivot Hochma-Wolfson' yeshivah in Beit Vegan and the 'Nachalat Levim' yeshivah in Haifa - which just this week switched from 'Berman' to 'Angel', and has now announced its cancellation of the contract. Also joining the boycott: Yeshiva 'Kol Yaakov' announced its cessation of purchasing Angel's products. So has the yeshivah of Rabbi Sternbuch in Beit Shemesh. Additional yeshivahs and institutions, including yeshivahs in the Sephardic Torah world, are about to join the boycott. Meanwhile, large stores in the ultra-Orthodox sector are also informing customers that they will stop selling Angel products. In one of the large supermarkets in Bnei Brak, a sign was hung on the company's bread shelf: "Rabbi stabbed. Do not buy Angel products." However, political commentator Yaakov Rivlin explained: "Angel is not responding to the cancellation of orders from the yeshivas, because it supplies them with subsidized, uniform bread, which is a deficit product for it. An effective boycott is on Angel's neighborhood confectioneries, which can be found in almost every Haredi concentration. Local businessmen - this is your arena.".

A look at the WhatsApp group of directors of large institutions in the Haredi sector - they are frantically looking for alternative sales agents for Angel Bakery... pic.twitter.com/AJ5Jntq3zi

— Moshe Glassner M. glassner (@moshe_glassner) May 4, 2023

Minister of Social Affairs Yaakov Margi addressed the storm, after Haredi Knesset members attacked the network and Omer Bar Lev: “The owner of Angel needs to understand that if he wants greater purchasing power for all of Israeli society, he needs to tell his new chairman of the board of directors, Omer Bar Lev, that his new work arrangement is only intended so that he won’t get bored at his age and won’t cause financial damage to his company. ”Demonstrating in front of the home of a leader of a large Haredi community is a violation of feelings, it’s a provocation, and that’s why the fury came out. The protesters want to lead to a rift in the nation, to a struggle between Haredi and secular Haredi.“ MK Avraham Bezalel of the Shas party is working with the heads of yeshivahs, so that they will take advantage of their great consumer power against the ”Angel' company - and announce a boycott of the company, until the chairman of the board of directors is dismissed from his position. MK Avraham Bezalel: 'The attempt to fan the flames against the Haredi will no longer pass in silence. The story of inciting hawks and spitting on the Haredi public without consequences is over. And the yeshiva heads are responding one after another. We are united, Ashkenazi and Sephardic Hasidic and Lithuanians, and we will continue the consumer boycott together until Amr Bar Lev is fired!.

I just took a picture at the supermarket in Ramot. There isn't even a single bartender. Angel is left in abundance. pic.twitter.com/Mp5t5OWJR0

— Avi Blumenthal (@BlumenthalAvi) May 4, 2023

Beitar Illit Mayor and Chairman of the Haredi Authorities Forum Meir Rubinstein also joined the call to boycott the bakery chain: "The serious attack on the greats of Israel, in the form of that former minister, who stood as the last of the anarchists in front of the house of the great Maran of the generation, is audacity and despicableness of the first degree. "From such a man, who serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Angel Company, we have no expectations. But from a company whose Haredi public is one of its largest consumers, we are expected to announce the removal of the man from his public position today, and no, we will promote the boycott of the company with all our might. We will not support those who harm the dignity of Torah! "We will not turn the other cheek! The Haredi public stops being silent!". Bar Lev protested against Rabbi Edelstein: Calls to boycott 'Angel'” “I despise him! Let him pay the price”: Haredi MKs support boycott of ”Angel‘ As reported in Haredim 10, Amar Bar Lev, the former Minister of Public Security who was appointed this month as the chairman of the board of directors of Angel Bakery, participated today in the ”Equality in Burden‘ demonstration near the home of Maran Rosh HaYeshiva HaGreig Edelstein in Bnei Brak. On his Twitter account, Bar Lev boasted, alongside a photo: ’Now in Bnei Brak with brothers in arms. And what does the coup d’état have to do with equality in burden? Beyond and in addition to the importance of the security service for everyone, the ‘No Equality in Burden’ law that the coalition intends to enact is Netanyahu and Levin’s bribery of the Haredi parties so that they will vote for the coup d’état.” Bar Lev’s demonstration sparked great anger among the Haredi public – and a protest arose on social media calling for a boycott of the bakery chain – a protest that has since garnered thousands of shares and comments.

One of the scribes in Bnei Brak: "Woe to the creatures for the insult of the Torah.".

The Haredi public is furious!

@Now14Israel pic.twitter.com/GlcOiBFCeN

— Yonatan Wiss (@yonatanWISS) May 4, 2023