Life in Israel: cost of living

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Dec 24, 2025

VAT-free shopping

Finance Minister Betzalel Smotritch yesterday signed into effect the order to expand the VAT exemption on personal imports to $150. It was $75 until now. The order is meant to go into effect today. I read somewhere that it can take 24-48 hours for online retailers to be fully updated, so be patient on your shopping sprees.

There is opposition from small business organizations who feel this is unfair competition to them as they have expenses and have to charge VAT while consumers are now being encouraged to buy more online VAT-free. Smotritch, justifying the expansion of VAT-free imports, said this is....

part of “a broad and significant series of steps” aimed at lowering the cost of living, alongside efforts to shake up the banking and dairy sectors.

All of these steps are predicated on the proposition that “it can be cheap here,” he said, arguing that “the Israeli economy is often dominated by a small number of strong monopolies,” giving consumers only the illusion of choice.

“There is no reason why an international chain’s garment should be sold here for” significantly more than abroad, he argued. “There is no justification for a shoe that is sold in the United States for half the price – to be sold here for double the price.”

First of all, yay! Amazon and AliExpress, take all my money!

Second, Smotritch is right. At least partially. Local retail does largely overcharge. But. But. But. But local retailers need to pay and to charge 18% VAT (increased last year from 17%, and is now being considered for another increase again to 19%). Local retail businesses need to pay a lot of taxes and regulatory fees, including arnona which is being increased again.

So yes, commerce in Israel is expensive, and the retailers take advantage when they feel they can and charge high prices, but some of those high prices come from the high taxes they have to pay and charge here in Israel. Smotritch can't really complain about them being expensive when he is comparing businesses with VAT and other taxes to businesses without VAT and those other high taxes..

While online retail is very popular, a lot of people also like to go into stores and buy thigns. Either they want to try the clothes on, or they want to buy something right now and walk out with it and not wait 2 weeks to get it and then see if it fits right or whatever. Many things don't ship to Israel. Many things are too expensive to ship to Israel. People will still go into stores. FM Smotritch should be helping and encouraging them to lower their prices as well by cutting their taxes - let local retail stores also sell up to a certain limit without VAT, or with lower VAT.

Whenever I have been to Eilat, including a relatively recent trip, it s busy everywhere and at all the activities. The busiest places, by my observation, are the malls and shops. People vacationing in Eilat take advantage of the VAT free shopping. People will continue to buy plenty in store around Israel, especially if VAT is lowered or done away with locally as well.

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Jul 30, 2023

Shaul Amsterdamski: two weeks without brand names to bring down the cost of living (video)

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Jul 20, 2023

parents and kids blind taste test between brand names and small brands (video)

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Jul 18, 2023

more from Shaul Amsterdamski on bringing down expenses by not buying name brands (video)

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Jun 6, 2023

price rises

Remember last year when the prices of basic products was just starting to rise, or some manufacturers/importers wanted to increase prices and some stores were refusing to comply and other dropped lines of products from companies that were raising prices?

now that pretty much all the companies have been regularly increasing prices ever since then I wonder why the supermarkets like Osher Ad and Yesh havent gone back to selling products from those original companies they had dropped. They are selling products from the other companies that raised prices. It was a good sentiment and a nice try but, as we see, the "problem" is across the board and not just limited to one company like Unilever or Diplomat, for example, as it was back then. They might as well bring back the other products, or drop Tnuva and all the others, though they might not have anything left to sell...

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cutting expenses to cut prices

Yesterday PM Benjamin Netanyahu convened, for the first time, the new committee under his leadership that was created for the specific purpose of fighting the increasing cost of living and regularly rising prices.

During the session, Netanyahu reportedly suggested revoking the laws that require companies to put a lot of information on the labels of food products. According to Netanyahu, except for the kashrut symbols what is good for Europe is good enough for us. No need for all the details ingredients and nutritional lists and approvals from various institutes..

I am not sure what exactly would be cut and what would remain. I am also not sure how much money that would actually save the companies that would then be passed on to the consumer -is it a significant amount, I dont know. I also remember from trips in the not too distant past to European countries that the labels on food products (which I had to look at in depth to try to figure out what was kosher) that the food packaging was not bare of words - just the opposite, the packaging in Europe had much more information than what I am used to here in Israel, as many items (I am hesitant to say "all") had all the info printed in multiple languages. Anyway, I am curious how much less printing would save the companies that would then by extension save Israelis when we go to the supermarket.

Additionally, remember the reforms instituted by Yaakov Litzman when he was Minister of Health, making companies tag products with little circles saying high sugar content, high salt content and others? That was greatly praised and seemed to be a good idea to inform people and help them eat more healthy foods. It seems that would be revoked by this change, which would be somewhat of a shame. I do wonder if any research was done to study how much of an effect those circles of health information had and if sales of less healthy products went down by a nice percentage because of that information being easily available..

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May 21, 2023

et tu Ben and Jerry's?

Israel's Channel 12 News is reporting that Ben and Jerry's Israel will be raising their prices by 15% as of June 1.

et tu Brute?

After we went to bat for you? After we arranged global boycotts of the parent company, after we arranged financial pressure from investors in the United States, after we fought the BDS movement on your behalf like we never fought for any other product or company before. and this is how you repay us? by increasing your prices?

for shame, as my South African friends would say!

With friends like these, who needs enemies?

I think we can now get Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield back on this situation..

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Dec 11, 2022

supply and demand applies to sufganiyot as well

There seems to be some outrage over the increase in the already outrageous prices of the fancy Chanukah donuts, specifically at Roladin, the flagship chain of the fancy donuts. Each fancy Roladin donut is now selling for 16nis.

In an interview behind a paywall, the CEO and Owner of Roladin complain about the complainers. The only bit I get, because of the Yediot paywall, is that they said people will be 140nis for a birthday cake (actually hundreds more if it is custom made in some design), and will spend 45nis per shawarma for a few shawarmas, but once a yea they get a donut and complain about the price. He says, if it was marketed as any other type of a dessert and not as a donut, they would easily be able to charge 24nis per unit

Nobody is holding a gun to anyone's head and making them by Roladin donuts. If they ae too expensive, go buy a donut in a different bakery, or buy a simpler more normal donut and not one that is sold as an extravagant piece of art and a culinary experience (personally I find many of them too sweet and not as exciting as it looks from a flavor perspective). Too expensive, don't buy. Mitzvat Hayom? Buy your sufganiyot elsewhere. if they are hit in their pockets because people are buying far fewer of their donuts, they will either lower the price or stop making them. Supply and demand is the key. If the people won't buy them at that price point, they will lower the price. If people continue to buy them, they have no reason to lower the price.

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Sep 29, 2022

Unilever threatens Israelis lifeblood

Unilever is one of the leading companies in Israel, or maybe the leading company in Israel, for selling consumer products. They are also largely behind a lot of the recent price hikes - they sell the most, so when they raise the prices, it affects the most, and then other companies follow suit. Whether it is justified or not but rising costs of raw materials is a different issue, but Unilever is behind a lot of the consumer price increases in Israel.

Several supermarket chains have already stopped selling Unilever products because of the price hikes. They have refused to raise their prices on so many products and told Unilever so, but Unilever hasnt backed down. So some supermarkets have stopped selling their products.

Now Unilever is threatening Israel itself. They are threatening the lifeblood of Israelis.

According to ICE, they are not impressed by the supermarkets threats to stop selling Unilever products and are now threatening back - if price increases do not get approved and accepted by the supermarkets they will simply refuse to manufacture products, including the Crembo.

The Crembo of Strauss, marketed by Unilever, is one of the greatest selling products in Israel. Not only is it one of Unilever's biggest products but it is also the most beloved product of Israelis, especially come winter time. And Unilever is threatening to simply stop making it, if the stores don't let them raise the price.

Israelis might have to make do with the Crembos of Rio and Feldman, and that might just be too much to ask for. Let's see who blinks first.

Something ironic I noticed is that when Ben & Jerry's recently scuffled with Israel, Jews around the world "boycotted" Ben & Jerry's, and waged a financial campaign against Unilever, while in Israel we continued to buy Ben & Jerry's as a way of supporting the local manufacturer who was fighting against the mothership. Now with Israelis fighting the price hikes, in Israel we are going to ban Unilever and Ben & Jerry's while around the world they are now satisfied that Israel won the scuffle and have gone back to investing in Unilever and consuming Ben & Jerry's...

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Sep 20, 2022

Shas opposing fish reforms

Avigdor Lieberman raised the tax on disposable utensils along with on sugary drinks. Those were taxes that were designed to encourage certain behavior - more environment awareness and using less disposables that are bad for the environment, and consuming less sugary drinks. This is similar to the taxes that were added on to cigarettes (by Yaakov Litzman among others) and to the tax on plastic bags added by Netanyahu several years ago. One can argue with the goal or the medium, or one can think it is a worthy goal. One can accuse him of having ulterior motives with it designed to target a specific sector that consumes both more (whether true or not). Either way, it was not just another tax and Avigdor Lieberman did not just raise taxes in general.

So that was a different kind of tax. I dont consider something like that "raising taxes". It was on something specific for a specific purpose - to dissuade people from buying those items.

In general Lieberman has lowered taxes. He lowered the tax on gasoline, along with lowering taxes over the past year on a variety of imported goods. The purpose of these is to fight inflation, to open the market to more competition by cheaper imports, which will improve quality and lower prices. I still think corporate and personal taxes should be lowered, along with taxes on automobiles and many other items, but what Lieberman has done, in this regard, has been a good start.

Funnily enough, this post so far sounds like it is a post supporting Avigdor Lieberman, but it is not meant to be. I have never voted for Avigdor Lieberman and do not intend to. I think he could have opposed the Haredi parties without being as nasty as he has been, and in general he is not my cup of tea, though the truth is that if he is the only one lowering taxes perhaps that should be reconsidered.

Shas, on the other hand, is a party that claims to be concerned about social matters, caring for the weak and poor of Israeli society. One example of that is their plan to distribute food vouchers to poor families. That will cost Israeli society some good money but it isnt a bad program and a society, capitalist as it might be, should have some social concerns as well for the weaker sector. Their concern for the weaker sectors never seems to translate into lowering taxes but to increasing handouts. I guess that makes sense, as if you lower taxes there wont be, or there will be less, money for the handouts.

Shas though has also opposed many reforms that were meant to help the people. I am not referring to reforms that involved religious issues, such as those of Matan Kahane - it is understandable that they opposed those. They have opposed many reforms that were meant to help the people financially, such as in the agriculture field (pun intended), such as the quotas of egg production, such as increasing allowance of imports of vegetables, such as lowering taxes on various imports especially in the agriculture imports. They oppose these reforms under the guise of protecting the farmers, protecting the chicken coop and egg people, etc. They oppose these reforms protecting some farmers at the expense of millions of Israelis. When I put it like that I just realized some juxtaposition with the hetter mechira which was meant to protect the farmers, but Shas (and others) oppose hetter mechira to help the local farmers, and many of those who support hetter mechira to help the farmers might support the reforms which would hurt the local farmers. Interesting point to think about.

The latest is Avigdor Lieberman, Minister of Finance, just announced the cutting of taxes on imports of fish before the holidays. This should cause the price of fish to drop just at a point where so many people are buying so much fish. That sounds like a good reform, a good plan, a helpful plan.

MK Yaakov Margi (Shas) on the other hand is opposing the reform. Margi claims that canceling the taxes on the fish imports will only help the monopolies get eve richer - he says prices will not be lowered but the monopolies will keep the extra money for themselves keeping the prices high and pocketing the difference.

That is a perfect example. The monopolies on fish are held by the local growers. The purpose of cutting the taxes on the imports is to force the local fish farmers to lower their prices to stay competitive. Increasing imports does not help the monopolies, it hurts them. He seems to imply that there is only one fish importer in Israel and this will help that monopoly, but if taxes are cut and it becomes profitable to import fish, others will join that market as well.

If Shas wants to help fight inflation and the increasing cost of living, they would not just give out handouts but would also work to lower prices.

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Aug 15, 2022

talk about the high cost of living

Especially in light of the new numbers on inflation that were released this evening, it seems clear that the main issue in these elections (besides for yes/no Bibi) will be the high cost of living.

While some politicians are ignoring the issue or at least not talking about it, others are just talking about expensive things are. I have yet to see any party or politician say he or she or they has/have a plan to bring inflation down.

In the coming weeks I would like to see all politicians and political parties relate to the high cost of living and at least tell us they have a plan, if not at least talk about the highlights of said plan.

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Apr 11, 2022

strong economy should help the people

The news is reporting that the month of March saw another significant drop in the deficit. The budge deficit relative to the GDP dropped to 1.4%. It now stands at the lowest it has been in 14 years, since 2008.

Tax increases seem to have filled the coffers with fewer outlays in the forms of grants and Corona stimulus packages that we saw in the past couple of years. In general that is a good thing. I would love to see somewhat smaller government with less waste in that regard but that is not going to happen too quickly.

In the meantime the filled coffers can start to be used to lower other taxes... will that happen? we wait and see.

At the same time Moody's just upgraded Israel's economic outlook to positive with A1 status.

This Israeli government must be doing something right on the economic side of governance.

Now it is time to actually do something to cut the high cost of living. People dont care much about the level of credit rating or deficit if they have to pay through the roof for their goods and services. People care more about what is in their pockets at the end of the month.The government needs to cut monopolies, fix the shipping and ports problems that are causing price increases. Lower taxes where possible. etc. Take advantage of the strong economic situation and act to benefit the people.

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Feb 21, 2022

have your hamantashen and eat it too

Roladin is a premiere bakery/cafe in Israel. They are known for making top quality pastries. Come Chanukah time and their elaborate sufganyot have become almost "must haves" for their uniqueness and style and flavors Their prices are commensurate with their reputation and they are among the more expensive of these types of shops.

I did not know that they also make fancy, expensive, hamantashen, but it seems that is a thing now as well. The news reported last night, sending everyone into shock, that Roladin sufganiyot are being sold for 140nis per kilogram. The news report listed several bakeries and their prices, and Roladin was near the top but not quite the most expensive. Someone else is selling hamantashen for 168nis per kilo (I do not recall the name). I will assume these are not just poppy filled hamantashen!

I have no idea what they cost in your average bakery that average people normally shop in, though I have heard 30-50nis per kilo. The cheapest of the hamantashen listed in the report of the expensive prices was 80nis per kilo.

Personally I dont particularly like hamantashen, though maybe if I tried a Roladin version that might change!

People flipped out, and the ridiculous price makes that understandable.

Roladin, though, along with those other fancy bakeries, have the right to charge whatever people are willing to pay. Supply and demand is how the mostly free market works. If they keep pushing the price up but people keep showing willingness to pay the higher and higher prices, it means the equilibrium has not yet been discovered. As soon as enough people decide this price is ridiculous and I wont pay it, Roladin and the others will start lowering the price to find that happy medium.

There is nothing to get upset at. No reason to get angry at Roladin. They are just charging what people are willing to pay. If it is too expensive for you, if you feel that is a waste of money, don't buy it. If enough people don't buy it, if people stop lining up outside the door of the local branch of Roladin to buy out the stock, Roladin will lower the prices.

you can have your hamantashen and eat it too, but only you can decide at what price you are not willing to buy

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Feb 15, 2022

Interesting Psak: plastic cups for kiddush

The recent rise in the cost of living and some new taxes, in Israel, might have effected an interesting change in halacha.

It is commonly known that one should not use a disposable plastic cup for kiddush. Rav Moshe Feinstein paskened not to because its value is almost worthless, insignificant, so it has no importance and cannot be considered a cup for kiddush. I have seen some people refuse to use one cup for kiddush but they would double it up with two cups saying that at that point it is already significant.

Rav Shaul Alter commented on this in a recent shiur, saying that we used to throw away disposable cups because they were cheap and insignificant. Now that the prices have gone up and it is expensive, people don't throw them out so quickly, some even wash them, and the cup now has significance and value. The disposable plastic cups, nowadays, because of the new taxes, would be considered usable for kiddush.

source: Kikar

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Feb 10, 2022

benefits for some, not all

Yesterday, Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman, along with other members of government (including Prime Minister Bennett) announced a plan to slow the rise of the cost of living, or lower the cost of living or however you might want to put it. The plan largely includes the lowering of taxes on additional imports in various spaces, giving tax benefits to young working parents and some additional adjustments.

Of course, no matter what this government does, some will say it is too little too late, or it is not helping the right people or it is an even ineffective decision, or other complaints.

From what I understand, the benefits of this announced plan are largely going to benefit the middle class. The middle class pays the most in taxes and generally gets the fewest benefits - almost every time a plan is put together it is to help the lower class who always need more help. The middle class just keeps paying taxes and working and paying more taxes.

I see no problem with a financial plan to help the middle class that does not also help the lower class. There have been and will be other plans that will help other groups at other times. The representatives of other groups are screaming that it doesnt help their people, but the truth is that it isnt intended to and that is ok - the other groups discussed get lots of tax benefits and financial support in many other areas. That one is being floated that doesnt apply to them is perfectly ok.

Everyone will benefit from lower prices - lower cost of coal so electricity price increase will be cut, lower prices on many imported goods, possibly lowered tax on gasoline if they come to an agreement on that, etc but the specific income tax plan is for the middle class and I see nothing wrong with that - just the opposite.

I think it is about time the middle class got a decent tax benefit. And I wont even really benefit much from it personally, as almost all my children are older than the age range defined for the benefit.

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Feb 9, 2022

who is responsible for the high cost of living?

Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman sounded a little delusional yesterday when he blamed the high cost of living in Israel on the Haredi community.

I am not even sure what that means - in what way are they responsible for the high cost of living? I think he meant because they participate in the workforce at lower percentages than general society. presumably, if the Haredi community would participate equally like everyone else, the government would be able to lower taxes as the tax base of people paying in would be greater.

I think that is bunk. The government is not going to lower taxes because some more people are paying in. I dont know who he thinks he is fooling. The high tax on gas is not because fewer Haredim are working. The high tax on sugary drinks is not because fewer Haredim are working. The level of arnona and income tax and VAT and all the various business taxes for people who own businesses, and all the other taxes are not coming down if more people start working. The graph of cars being purchased in Israel does nothing but go up yet the tax on gas or on cars has not gone down even a bit let alone commensurately.

Besides for taxes and the workforce, the Haredim are experts in cheap purchasing. They buy in bulk, they use community forces and group purchasing power to attain lower costs. Besides for homes, they often do not even purchase higher priced items.

Haredim suffer from cost of living increase as much as anyone else, but the cost of living has always been high in Israel and it isnt the fault of any one specific group (other than maybe government people).

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Feb 6, 2022

good reasons but bad timing

In general I do not know if this is a good idea, a good initiative, or not, but consider the sharply increasing cost of living right now, even if it is a good initiative it might be worth waiting and not implementing it right now.

According to Behadrei, MK Yasmin Fridman (Yesh Atid), and joined on by members of the coalition across the various parties, has proposed a law that would prohibit the import of live animals into Israel for the purpose of slaughter - for meat. the law, if it would pass, will actually limit the imports, after approval by a minister, decreasing by 25% each year.

Much of the meat in Israel is actually from animals that were imported alive. They are brought to Israel, kept for a while and fattened up, and then slaughtered. A lot of these animals are brought in from South America and form various European countries. The purpose of this law is to put an end to the painful journey of these animals brought in from Israel just to be slaughtered.

While this law proposal would seemingly cause the price of meat to go up, at the same time, according to Behadrei, the coalition is also working on law proposals that would make the price of meat cheaper by increasing the import of meat and also by encouraging the increase of cattle raised in Israel.

As I said above, the initiative is for the purpose of lessening the tzaar baalei chaim of these animals, which is a good thing, but perhaps this is something that should be delayed a bit until the prices and cost of living stabilize a bit. Right now, according to the news, as I write this, PM Naftali Bennett and Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman are meeting for Finance Ministry officials to put together a plan to reverse the increasing rise in prices right now. Delaying such moves that would directly cause prices to rise might be a start.

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Feb 2, 2022

It's the economy, stupid

When they raised the taxes recently on sugary drinks it made me wonder what the effect was of another social-engineering tax that was passed a few years back. the tax on plastic bags in the supermarket. Supermarkets have to charge a 10 agura tax for each plastic bag used at checkout. This does not include the super thin bags used for vegetable s and it does not apply in almost any other store - just supermarkets (where I guess most of the bags get used). The purpose of this was to cause people to use multi-use bags and use less plastic throwaway bags.

So I was wondering if there is any information out there regarding the effect of the tax. Did it work? have people been using fewer bags since the tax was implemented back in 2017? Is the tax effective? Was 10ag per bag not enough to deter people?

I did some searching but did not find any useful information. If anyone can point me in the direction of some information I would appreciate it. I am curious because I will also be interested, after some time has passed, to see if the current taxes will have their desired effect. Will people drink less sugary drinks? Are people getting healthier because of it?

Anyways, now it seems some in the government want to expand the plastic bag tax. Not to raise the amount of the tax but to apply it more broadly.

According to Israel Hayom, a group of MKs have proposed a law to expand the plastic bag tax. They would have the tax apply moving forward on all stores, not just supermarkets. Additionally they would have the tax apply as well on those thin bags used for fruit and vegetables and meats. It would also be applied to some type of thicker plastic bag it currently does not apply to.

It seems like bad timing, considering everything else going up in price and other recent new taxes. There is only so much the people will take. Taxes might be necessary to pay for all the grants and loans the government took in the past years but as Bill Clinton said in his presidential campaign some 30 years ago, It's the economy, stupid.

The government wont last long if it keeps increasing taxes and not stemming inflation and the increase in cost of living. Some of it is the market and cannot be controlled (such as shortages of coal causing electricity prices to increase or other raw material and shipping shortages), but add to that all the new taxes and people wont allow this to continue. They will be voted out of office quickly enough if they don't take into consideration the already expensive cost of living in Israel continuing to increase at alarming rates.

Israeli voters tend to vote mostly on issues of defense as their top priority, but in these times it looks like the economy will be a much bigger factor in the coming years. The "Iran is out to destroy us" card can only be played for so long.

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Feb 1, 2022

no need to boycott to spend less

People now are talking about boycotting Osem due to their increase in prices. They are posting comparisons online showing other Israeli brands selling the exact same product for one price with Osem selling it at a significantly higher price.

I am all for boycotting Osem if that is what they want to do. And I hope it has the desired effect in pressuring Osem to knock down their prices a notch or three.

I am wondering though what has happened until now with no boycott. When people see two products almost exactly the same on the shelf and one is 20-45% higher in price - why were they buying Osem, the higher priced product, rather than the cheaper competition?

If they perceive Osem to be higher quality, then perhaps the higher price is justified. If they are not perceiving it as higher quality but the same, then why have they been buying the higher priced item?

Every time you go to the store you have the choice of what to by. You don't need to call for a boycott to buy the cheaper, or more reasonably priced, item. And if you choose to pay the higher price, you are clearly perceiving some sort of benefit making it worthwhile.

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Jan 31, 2022

burning gas to fill up

The news is reporting that due to the increase in gas prices tonight at midnight there are long lines of cars at the gas stations waiting to fill up their gas tanks before the price increase.

They are probably burning more gas/money waiting to fill up than the few shekels they will be saving by filling up tonight rather than tomorrow.

We should all be striking though, not running to fill up ours cars. Instead of rushing to fill up and save a few shekels one time before the price hike, we should all not use our cars for a week or two and pressure the government to cut the gasoline taxes. I read once that 60% of the price of gas in Israel is the taxes.

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