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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 475

small businesses

A picture shows closed shops in the southern city of Sderot near the Gaza border on January 8, 2024, amid continuing battles between Israel and the Hamas. (Alberto PIZZOLI/AFP)
2024 sees drop in number of small business owners, but ‘shockwave’ to come next year
By Sharon Wrobel
50,000 small and medium-sized businesses closed and 46,000 new ones opened in 2024, the second consecutive year of net declines, according to data by Ultra Finance
Israelis walk by a large billboard reading 'Israel is strong and will win' on Dizengoff Street in Tel Aviv, January 17, 2024. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
On Tel Aviv’s once-bustling Dizengoff, business owners lament another casualty of war
By Jennifer Korn
A picture shows closed shops in the southern city of Sderot near the Gaza border on January 8, 2024, amid continuing battles between Israel and the Hamas. (Alberto PIZZOLI/AFP)
December 31, 2024, 8:57 pm
2024 sees drop in number of small business owners, but ‘shockwave’ to come next year
50,000 small and medium-sized businesses closed and 46,000 new ones opened in 2024, the second consecutive year of net declines, according to data by Ultra Finance
By Sharon Wrobel
Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda market stands largely empty, on August 4, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
August 26, 2024, 2:21 pm
Israel’s economy in grave danger as Gaza war drags on, economists warn
Experts say economy cannot survive much longer as fighting with Hamas has stalled tourism, forced small businesses to shut, slowed down shipping and raised deficit
By Agencies
Israelis walk by a large billboard reading 'Israel is strong and will win' on Dizengoff Street in Tel Aviv, January 17, 2024. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
July 26, 2024, 9:58 am
On Tel Aviv’s once-bustling Dizengoff, business owners lament another casualty of war
After tourism drops by roughly 75% since the Israel-Hamas conflict began in October, vendors say costs are up as sales are down — and they see no bailout on the horizon
By Jennifer Korn
Israelis inspect damaged cars after they were hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip in Ashkelon, southern Israel, October 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
October 26, 2023, 3:45 pm
Social lender to provide interest-free credit to war-damaged businesses and families
Ogen creates emergency economic relief fund to provide loans to small businesses and individuals in financial stress during the ongoing Hamas war
By Sharon Wrobel
People on Jaffa Street in downtown Jerusalem, September 26, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 20, 2023, 3:57 pm
Almost half of small business owners are sure judicial overhaul will harm them: poll
Two-thirds say they are more concerned than they used to be for their business’s stability amid divides over controversial legislation
By ToI Staff
Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked (R) and then Yamina MK Abir Kara present their plan to reduce the bureaucratic burden on small businesses, May 1, 2022. (Mark Neiman/GPO)
May 2, 2022, 11:49 am
Ahead of early budget fight, Shaked plans to streamline small business regulations
Expected to be signed into effect in 2 weeks, interior minister and MK Abir Kara’s amendment to Business Licensing Order eases up on bureaucratic requirements
By Carrie Keller-Lynn
Israeli self-employed and small business owners participate in a rally calling for financial support from the government outside the Knesset in Jerusalem, on April 19, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 1, 2022, 3:12 pm
Business owners who must repay undeserved COVID grants go to battle with the taxman
Israel Tax Authority demands return of funds paid out to small businesses and to self-employed professionals who didn’t lose as much income as they had thought during lockdowns
By Shoshanna Solomon
In a promotional video for Kosher Dekal, a woman takes off the product from a kitchen counter. (YouTube/ via JTA)
May 1, 2022, 2:52 am
A New Jersey firm thought it had a winning Passover product. Then things got sticky
After the holiday, customers receive a surprise when supposedly easy-off Kosher Dekal countertop covers adhere too well due to a factory error in China — resulting in huge refunds
By Jacob Henry
Ori Zohar, left, and Ethan Frisch, right, are the founders of the single-origin spice company Burlap & Barrel. (Mark Mahaney/ via JTA)
February 4, 2022, 3:01 am
These modern-day Jewish spice merchants want to revolutionize the industry
Ori Zohar and Ethan Frisch, founders of Burlap & Barrel, are demystifying one of the least-known areas of the pantry by sourcing directly from farmers from Afghanistan to Guatemala
By Shira Hanau
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a statement to the media in the Israeli Parliament in Jerusalem on November 2, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 23, 2021, 12:27 pm
Netanyahu said planning new aid to small businesses ahead of election
TV network says PM preparing blitz of diplomatic and economic moves in March to boost his chances in national vote
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Closed businesses for COVID-19 pandemic outbreak (Maridav; iStock by Getty Images)
December 24, 2020, 12:14 pm
Lockdown will shutter 7,500 additional businesses, report says
75,000 businesses already closed this year, consultant firm says in estimate; Finance Ministry forecasts that third lockdown will cost economy NIS 3 billion a week
By Shoshanna Solomon
Gal Garber and Mathilde Lair prepare jachnun in their apartment in Amsterdam, November 20, 2020. (Mathilde Lair/ via JTA)
December 4, 2020, 12:49 pm
Why slow-baked Yemenite bread ‘jachnun’ is Europe’s next COVID craze
With a delivery-friendly Shabbat staple, Jewish and Israeli home chefs connect with lovers of Mideastern food, often using it as a backup livelihood in the coronavirus era
By Cnaan Liphshiz
People shop on the first day of the reopening of street shops on Jaffa Street in downtown Jerusalem on November 8, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 8, 2020, 3:46 pm
Street shops reopen after long closure, but some businesses succumb to virus
‘The two lockdowns completely finished us,’ says one store owner forced to close down due to pandemic restrictions; those who do reopen say they feel they’ve been let out of jail
By ToI Staff
A woman walks next to a closed store at Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem's Old City on October 13, 2020, during a nationwide lockdown. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
November 4, 2020, 10:09 pm
Ministers vote to reopen shops next week, over objections of health officials
Health minister and virus czar cite rising rate of new cases stemming from each infection; Finance Minister lauds move, after nearly two months of being shuttered
By ToI Staff
View of the closed Hadar shopping mall in Jerusalem on October 12, 2020 (Olivier Fitoussi/FLASH90)
October 28, 2020, 6:43 am
Tax Authority to demand return of hundreds of millions in coronavirus stipends
Hundreds of small companies and thousands of independent workers reportedly received grants totalling $300 million they had not qualified for; will now be forced to give money back
By ToI Staff
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