Businesses joining first Palestinian-Israeli mall face boycott

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Source: Times of Israel

Palestinian Society for Consumer Protection threatens to blacklist stores in Rami Levy’s West Bank complex meant to foster coexistence

The leader of an influential Palestinian organization threatened on Saturday to cause financial harm to any Palestinian businesses joining the first Israeli-Palestinian mall currently under construction in the northeastern Jerusalem.

The Times of Israel reported last week that Israeli developer Rami Levy is building a shopping center a two-minute drive from the West Bank crossing that leads to Ramallah. Levy said he is seeking out Palestinian business owners to rent space in the shopping center, and hopes to attract customers from the big West Bank city.

Responding to the report of Levy’s project, Saleh Haniyeh, head of the Palestinian Society for Consumer Protection, said his group, in partnership with a number of institutions, is “ready to reveal the names of any partners of ‘the settler’ businessman Rami Levy, put them on the blacklist and boycott their commercial interests.”

Haniyeh said his group would also pressure the Palestinian Chamber of Commerce to freeze Levy’s Palestinian partners’ memberships, according to a report in the Palestinian news agency Ma’an.

Read more: http://www.timesofisrael.com/businesses-joining-first-palestinian-israeli-mall-face-boycott/

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Rami Levy Hashikma Marketing
Source: Wikipedia

Rami Levy Hashikma Marketing (Hebrew: רמי לוי שיווק השקמה??, Rami Levy Shivuk Hashikma) is the third largest Israeli retail supermarket chain, behind Shufersal Ltd. and Alon Holding–Blue Square Ltd., with annual revenues of NIS 1.14 billion (US$401 million). Founded in 1976 on Rehov Hashikma (Sycamore Street) in the Mahane Yehuda Market district, Rami Levy was Israel's first discount store. The chain claims to slash the price of the average basket of goods by as much as 20%. The company went public on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange in 2007 and has increased its sales volume and number of stores each year since.

Rami Levy operates a chain of 27 discount supermarkets in Central and Northern Israel employing over 5,000. It also distributes wholesale to 450 stores in and around Jerusalem. The company has diversified into retail clothing sales, real estate, and cellular communications, with 20 stores of Rami Levy Communications selling cellular phone services at a discount.

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