There can’t be many less likely candidates for a boycott than Angel Bakeries. Purveyors of crusty challah since before the Eidah Hachareidis was born, the bakery is a Yerushalmi icon, wafting the fragrance of fresh bread over Givat Sha’ul under Ben-Gurion and Bibi alike.
Boycotting Angel’s is the Israeli equivalent of a trade war against Gerber’s baby food; a ludicrous attack on a harmless consumer brand.
Not anymore. Last week, this unassuming symbol of Israeli consensus gave new meaning to the term “kitchen table issue” by falling victim to Israel’s ongoing political bun fight.
It happened when the bakery’s new director, Omer Bar-Lev, who was the internal security minister in the Bennett-Lapid government, showed up at a protest outside Yeshivas Ponevezh and the house of Rav Gershon Edelstein, calling for a chareidi draft.
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