Since the beginning of 2016, owners of food factories in the PA (Palestinian Authority) were informed by the Chief Rabbinate of Israel they will no longer be able to keep their hashgacha despite adhering to regulations. The Chief Rabbinate has decided to stop granting a hashgacha to factories in PA areas in response to the ongoing wave of terror because the situation no longer permits sending mashgichim for entering PA areas requires IDF approval, Galei Tzahal (Army Radio) reports.
The Chief Rabbinate does not actualize provide mashgichim, but relies on badatz agencies that do. Included in companies that lost their hashgacha are Yona and Ayash tehina, both located in Shechem.
Attorney Prof. Aviad Cohen who is representing the tehina factories, told Galei Tzahal, “The practical significance of the Rabbinate’s decision is a declaration of a boycott of everything manufactured in the territories. Beyond the problematic legal aspect of the decision, it may become a political boomerang and place the State of Israel into a corner that will be difficult to get out of”.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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We are already in a corner, thanks to BDS & the EU. I applaud this measure – hit the PA where it hurts, in the wallet. Now can it go much further, to ban ALL goods from Gaza & PA? Yes, prices will be high, but perhaps now is the time to import produce so that we don’t have more carrot & tomato shortages, as well as sending a very clear message to our enemies. It would be really nice to have decent fruit & veg year round from countries who aren’t trying to kill us.
To computerbubby:
I don’t know much about these thing, but it seems to me that they may be hitting the Palestinians who mean no harm, and meanwhile the terrorists don’t care who gets hurt because their goal is to kill kill kill, regardless of the cost.