Posted on 11/01/2007 9:16:51 PM PDT by goldstategop
You see it in sectors like food, consumer products and transport companies,” he said. The Israeli airline El Al is now privatized. “But they continue not to fly on Saturday,” Mr. Melnick said, in order to keep ultra-Orthodox customers.
Tamar El-Or, an anthropologist at Hebrew University, studied ultra-Orthodox shopping patterns. “There are lines of cellphones and credit cards and Internet suppliers and software and DVDs and clothes and so many things produced or altered or koshered for them, because they have a certain organized power to get the producers to make what they want,” she said.
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"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
The video that accompanies the article on the NYTimes website also is very interesting to watch.
That’s the free market at work. And in the cases of things like cell phones etc, its supply meeting demand.
Though I can’t imagine what an “orthodox” cell phone does, except maybe turn itself off on the Sabbath? I think you can program a blackberry to turn itself on and off at certain times of certain days.
So all the non-orthodox can’t fly El Al from Friday afternoon to Saturday night. I’m sure in Israel, they are accustomed to making arrangements accodingly. Just like in some states in the US, you gotta stock up on your liquor by Saturday night because you won’t be able to buy any on Sunday.
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