Israel – Stores To Remain Closed On Shabath

Israel – David Wiessman, the controlling shareholder of Dor Alon, has agreed to keep all new outlets of the company’s AM:PM convenience-store chain closed on Shabbat. That’s the claim of the Rabbinical Committee for the Sanctity of the Sabbath, which had threatened to call a boycott of Dor Alon’s Blue Square and Shefa Shuk supermarket chains as well as its network of gas stations, because of AP:PM stores being open on Saturdays. Committee secretary Rabbi Yitzhak Goldknop said his group has already asked attorney Yaakov Weinroth to draw up the papers.

The unofficial boycott against Wiessman’s businesses began about two weeks ago, when the committee called on the religious public to avoid his stores. [haaretz]