Dozens of street shop and business owners from the clothing industry emerged in Tel Aviv on Tuesday to protest the financial changes surrounding Israel’s coronavirus lockout.
Demonstrators gathered in southern Tel Aviv ahead of an expected cabinet meeting this afternoon, with some protesters tying a nose around their necks and others picking up signs exploding the classroom politics and how they handled the pandemic.
Business owners complain about COVID-19 lockdown in Tel Aviv
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“We’ve reached the end of our businesses, we’re running out of air. We can’t breathe anymore,” one entrepreneur who runs a clothing store told Ynet.
“Street shops are the safest, why are they closing us?”
Business owners complain about COVID-19 lockdown in Tel Aviv
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“This government is back and its decisions are bizarre and torn apart by political interests. We, the middle class, are falling apart; we have not been working for 10 months and no we had been working between locks, “said a campaigner.
“The government is encouraging people to stay at home, without any logic, and we are self-employed paying for everyone. We want the government to pay attention to us. open but street shops can hold four at a time Who has allowed these politicians to run a country I am so sorry for the leadership and what they are doing to us , it is a crime and we get our opinions in the polls.
“Today’s protest is a warning to the government that abandoned the street shops and self-employed people and left to deal with the lock and their loans to the banks on their own.”
“Approximately 80,000 businesses have collapsed as a result of the coronavirus crisis and it is time for Jerusalem to wake up as this policy has failed.”