Rami Levy

June 13, 2023, 5:38 pm

Rami Levy seeking deal with international supermarket chain for discounted products

Rami Levy says it’s in talks with global retailers, including French groups Auchan and Casino and Dutch-owned SPAR

By Sharon Wrobel

An illustrative photo of a cigarette but from January 2017. (Flash90)

September 17, 2022, 10:05 am

‘We felt nauseous’: Family finds cigarette butt in packaged chicken from supermarket

Oded Chen from Karmiel says his daughters no longer want to eat chicken; factory acknowledges it could be responsible, apologizes for ‘distress’

By ToI Staff

Shufersal CEO Itzik Abercohen (L) and supermarket mogul Rami Levy (R) during a Knesset Economic Affairs Committee meeting, November 10, 2021. (Noam Moskowitz/Knesset spokesperson)

November 10, 2021, 7:16 pm

Shufersal boss denies price fixing; Rami Levy booted from Knesset committee

Competition Authority continues to investigate retail chains and importers, a day after their offices are raided over apparent breach of antitrust laws

By ToI Staff

People shop for groceries at the Rami Levy supermarket in Modiin as Israel entered a new major coronavirus lockdown September 24, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

July 28, 2021, 4:39 pm

In bid to lower prices, Liberman said targeting ‘cynical’ supermarkets

Finance minister and officials review figures showing some chains increased profits by more than 50% during pandemic, discuss breaking them up, according to TV report

By Stuart Winer

Illustrative: An Israir flight taking off from Ben Gurion International Airport, Tel Aviv. September 3, 2015. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

December 29, 2020, 2:08 pm

Supermarket mogul poised to become new owner of Israir Airlines

Bondholders approve NIS 162 million proposal from Rami Levy and Shalom Haim to buy majority stake in the airline

By ToI Staff

A Vertical Field container stationed at the Tel Aviv port (Courtesy)

December 13, 2020, 4:22 pm

You’ve got kale: Grocery chain to sell salad leaves, herbs grown on ‘green wall’

Vertical Field has signed ‘multi-million dollar’ deal with Rami Levy supermarkets to offer customers fresh produce picked from vertical farms

By Shoshanna Solomon

The southeastern view of the planned railway station development project in Jerusalem (Courtesy Jerusalem municipality)

November 11, 2020, 10:50 am

Soho, Jerusalem: Huge plan puts old train station on track to be new city center

Developers of massive project around First Station include Erel Margalit and Rami Levy, each with acres of land to develop apartments, offices, hotels and retail space

By Jessica Steinberg

Delivery trucks of the Israel Postal Company (Courtesy)

From the WebOctober 1, 2020, 3:06 pm

Rami Levy, Apax interested in Israel Postal privatization

Globes: Israel seeks to privatize the Israel Postal Co. in two stages: via a 20% stake sale to a strategic investor, and by floating another 20% on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange

Illustrative: A woman shops with her son at the Rami Levy supermarket in the Gush Etzion settlement bloc. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

April 1, 2020, 6:26 pm

As orders surge and delivery times peak, stores to offer set Passover baskets

Supermarket deliveries difficult to find by the start of the Passover holiday next week; shortages of items like eggs are temporary, chains say

By Shoshanna Solomon

Illustrative: Israelis shop at a supermarket in Jerusalem, November 12, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

March 8, 2020, 9:12 am

Israelis join global panic buying amid coronavirus fears

Experts say herd mentality, over-exposure to news coverage to blame for global customers stocking up on non-essential items; supermarket chains in Israel report increase in sales

By AFP and ToI Staff

The Nof Zion neighborhood in East Jerusalem, October 25, 2017. (Mahmoud Illean/AP)

November 28, 2019, 10:36 am

Work begins to triple size of Jewish enclave in East Jerusalem Arab neighborhood

Project will add 176 homes to Nof Zion, located in Jabel Mukaber; Housing Ministry said to revive another plan for up to 11,000 units on site of Atarot Airport

By ToI Staff

Tuvia Yanai Weissman with his wife Yael and four-month-old daughter. Weissman was stabbed to death by Palestinian terrorists at a West Bank supermarket on February 18, 2016. (Facebook)

July 10, 2019, 6:08 pm

Two terrorists behind deadly 2016 stabbing sentenced to 32, 35 years

Third Palestinian involved in attack that killed off-duty soldier Tuvia Yanai Weissman at West Bank supermarket was sentenced to 35 years in December

By Judah Ari Gross

Palestinians shopping at the new Atarot Mall, opened by businessman Rami Levy, owner of the Rami Levy supermarket chain, on January 13, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

February 3, 2019, 10:20 am

Abbas said to block ‘settler’ supermarket mogul from peace meeting

Business forum holds talks with Palestinian leader, reportedly after excluding Rami Levy, who has opened multiple stores in the West Bank

By ToI Staff

Image broadcast by Palestinian Authority television on January 13, 2019 (Screenshot: Palestinian Media Watch)

January 19, 2019, 6:01 pm

Abbas’s Palestine TV airs image equating shopping at Jerusalem mall with treason

Fatah says purchasing goods at Israeli supermarket king Rami Levy’s stores amounts to ‘supporting the occupation’

By ToI Staff

Supermarket king Rami Levy drinks coffee at Atarot Mall, his new complex on the seam of Arab and Jewish Jerusalem (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

January 8, 2019, 8:13 pm

On edge of Jerusalem alongside security barrier, Jews and Arabs shop at new mall

‘I’ve waited for this for many years,’ says supermarket mogul and founder Rami Levy, on site for the first day of business as his shopping center prepares to open fully in 3 weeks

By Jessica Steinberg