The use and consumption of eggs always increases around the time of holidays in Israel.
Authorities became aware of the operation from postings on social media regarding the sale of quail chicks.
From this decree on, the two days of Rosh Hashanah – unlike the two days of Pesach, Shavuot, and Sukkot – were no longer celebrated out of doubt but out of certainty.
Police closed in on a ring of Israeli and Palestinian Authority Arabs who smuggled eggs and sold to supermarkets in urban centers in Israel. The gang raked in more than $2.5 million a year in the operation that stamped the eggs with forged approval. Police investigator Shai Kovnator noted, "The phenomenon of smuggling eggs from […]
Arab smugglers were foiled by the Hebrew language.