Drucker: About a month ago, there was a protest demonstration in Bnei Brak, and then a boycott of Angel Bakery began because the chairman of the Angel board, Omer Bar Lev, who came as a protester, came to this protest and it happened about 200 meters from the house of the great Rabbi of the generation, Rabbi Edelstein, who had just passed away. For a month, there was a tremendous struggle behind the scenes, which ended with the letter of surrender.
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The bakery's CEO and owner, Yaron Angel, writes that "the chairman of the board of directors participated as a private individual and not in the framework of his position. We were supposed to clarify this after the demonstration took place and express regret on our behalf. Our silence was interpreted as further harm. We apologize for our silence so far. The silence was not intended to be 'silence as an admission.'".
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And Omer Bar Lev also publishes an ad, meaning it is humiliation upon humiliation: "I intended to express a personal position and certainly not to offend or defy the greatest of generations. I was not aware of the feeling of offense, I certainly would have avoided it, and for that I express my sorrow and apologize from the bottom of my heart. I see Torah scholars as an important value in the Israeli tradition, and I did not demonstrate against that.".
Sherry Roth, will you come back and buy some angel food?
Sherry: Look, this boycott came from below. I mean, there was no one who organized it, I mean some office that said I'm organizing. I've been talking to a lot of strategists lately and I asked: Why, Angel, for God's sake, don't they apologize and be done with it? Why do they need all this?
Nathan Zahavi: Why would they apologize?
Sherry: Forget it, they apologized at the end... so why not do it from the beginning?
Nathan: That's a shame!
Sherry: Forget it, what do you think about it? I'm asking, strategically, if you already know that you'll apologize in the end, why were you waiting?
Drucker: I'm with you on the question! At first it seemed like the secularists were saying, "We'll show you what an ultra-Orthodox boycott is...".
Shari: It is clear that the Haredi public has huge purchasing power, it is something that comes from the heart of a person, who feels that their feelings have been hurt, it does not matter now whether it was right or not, whether they intended to hurt or not. I think what happened to them is that when the great generation passed away, they realized that the secular public also values his personality...
Drucker: No, don't exaggerate...
Zehavi: The secular public doesn't know the rabbi. The Haredi public knows the rabbi.
Sherry: So I know a lot of secular people who said, we connect with these qualities of the rabbi.
Drucker: Their claim was that their sales only improved because the ultra-Orthodox buy bread under supervision, cheap bread, and the secular buy the expensive bread. It turns out that this is not what happened.
Sherry: Of course not, if it was a winning recipe they wouldn't repeat it...
Drucker: Nathan, did they make a mistake by apologizing?
Zehavi: Of course they made a mistake. Look at what they did to Galit Gutman. What did she say? She said what a very high percentage of secularists think. Maybe the expression wasn't appropriate.
Sherry: So she apologized for the expression being inappropriate...
Zahavi: But that's what people think! And say!
Sherry: Do you really think I'm a bloodsucker? That we're bloodsuckers?
Zahavi: Look...
Sherry: Yes or no! Am I a bloodsucker?
Drucker: God forbid...
Sherry: I'm asking Nathan, I know you wouldn't say something like that...
Drucker: I answer on behalf of Nathan...
Shari: Galit Gutman said we are bloodsuckers. The Haredim are bloodsuckers...
Zehavi: Are you Haredi?
Sherry: Yes!
Zahavi: I didn't know until now...
Sherry: So you know, I suck blood? My children suck blood?
Drucker: God forbid.
Sherry: So she apologized for that...
