food prices

Illustrative: People shop at a Rami Levy supermarket in Jerusalem, on February 3, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

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

Shoppers at a Spar supermarket in Johannesburg, South Africa, March 24, 2020 (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)

March 5, 2023, 1:31 pm

Shufersal injects NIS 28 million to open Dutch SPAR chain in Israel

Israel’s biggest supermarket chain inks deal to exclusively import and sell SPAR products in Israel, vowing to increase competition and bring down food prices

By Sharon Wrobel

Passengers wait for a bus at the entrance to Jerusalem on August 1, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

January 15, 2023, 11:21 pm

Israel’s inflation at 5.3% in 2022, its highest level since 2008

Consumer price index rose 0.3% in December, led by gains in housing, food, transportation, and telecommunications prices, according to Central Bureau of Statistics

By Sharon Wrobel

Illustrative: Chocolate-covered wafer snacks produced by Strauss-Elite, April 25, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

December 8, 2022, 10:59 pm

Food giant Strauss to hike prices by up to 9%, cites raw material costs

Dairy items, spreads, snacks and honey among products to see increase; company says ‘proportional price update’ needed to maintain balance between needs of consumers and investors

By ToI Staff

People shop for food at Shufersal, on September 21, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

December 6, 2022, 11:37 am

Shufersal supermarket chain bows to Tnuva price hikes, ending short-lived boycott

Retailer says it will bring back products that have no alternatives on the market, while keeping others off the shelves

By ToI Staff

A worker stacks dairy products at a Shufersal supermarket in the Golan Heights town of Katzrin, on July 1, 2022. (Michael Giladi/ Flash90)

November 23, 2022, 11:24 am

Tnuva’s price hike comes into effect, all eyes on Shufersal after boycott threat

Without many alternatives and with potential competition from smaller retailers, Israel’s largest supermarket chain may find itself fighting the dairy giant’s price rise on its own

By Tobias Siegal

Illustrative: A man looks at dairy products while shopping at a Rami Levy supermarket. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

November 14, 2022, 2:56 pm

Tnuva announces price hikes on majority of unregulated dairy products

Expected increase of about 5% to apply to most of the food giant’s dairy products and non-dairy substitutes; Shufersal chain says it opposes move, will take items off shelves

By Tobias Siegal

A shopping cart at the Rami Levy supermarket in Modiin on July 21, 2022. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

August 1, 2022, 10:30 pm

Amid outcry, major importer freezes price hikes until after the Jewish holidays

Diplomat — which controls many brands including Starkist, Heinz and Skippy — promises deal to supermarket chains that will put off increase in prices until October

By Amy Spiro

Histadrut labor federation chair Arnon Bar-David calls for a consumer boycott of import giants Diplomat, Kimberly Clark and Schestowitz amid rising prices, July 26, 2022. (Screenshot/Histadrut)

July 27, 2022, 12:23 pm

‘The party is over’: Histadrut chair urges consumer boycott amid rising prices

Arnon Bar-David says import giants Diplomat, Kimberly Clark and Schestowitz are ‘taking advantage of the political chaos’ and ‘abusing’ the public

By Tobias Siegal

White sliced bread seen at the Angel Bakeries Factory in Jerusalem, August 16, 2010. (Abir Sultan/Flash90/File)

July 13, 2022, 10:34 pm

Government announces 20% rise in price of regulated bread

Affected products include sliced and unsliced white and dark loaves, challah; economy minister vows to lower prices once cost of raw materials goes down

By Tobias Siegal

A Palestinian man hangs decorative lights in preparation for the holy Muslim month of Ramadan, at the streets of Jerusalem's Old City, April 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

April 2, 2022, 12:47 pm

Ramadan kicks off in Mideast in shadow of soaring food prices amid Ukraine invasion

Ongoing war casts a pall over Muslim holiday as many countries face wheat shortages, leaving millions to wonder where their next meals will come from

By AP

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (C), Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman (R), and Economy and Industry Minister Orna Barbivai share the government's plan to address cost of living in a Jerusalem press conference, February 9, 2022. (Government Press Office)

February 9, 2022, 10:45 pm

Bennett, Liberman promise vexed public to tackle living costs, help families

Plan to add tax benefits, lower tariffs on various products and increase competition expected to cost state coffers some NIS 4.4 billion in 2022

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (center) addresses a weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on February 6, 2022. (Haim Zach/ GPO)

February 6, 2022, 9:25 pm

PM meets finance minister as he vows to tackle rising living costs

Bennett says competition is best tool for mitigating price hikes; Finance Ministry expected to present plan next week

By Tobias Siegal

Israelis protest against the rising cost of living, outside the Knesset in Jerusalem, February 2, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

February 4, 2022, 10:55 pm

Finance Ministry said mulling tax cuts amid protests over soaring cost of living

Report says Liberman will present plan next week that could also include subsidizing part of electricity price hike and further cuts to import duties

By ToI Staff

Osem products are seen on a shelf in a Rami Levy supermarket in Jerusalem on February 3, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

February 4, 2022, 11:42 am

Food giant Osem nixes planned price hike after public uproar

After initially delaying move amid a massive backlash, company says it is canceling increase in prices despite ‘unprecedented rise in operating costs’

By ToI Staff