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Title:"...shall not publicly display..."
Name:Joel Katz
City: JerusalemState:
According to the Authorized Translation of the law:

“…the owner of a business shall not publicly display any leavened product for sale or consumption.

For this purpose, "leavened product" means - (1) bread; (2) rolls; (3) pitta; (4) any other leavened flour products.”

As Prof. Amnon Rubinstein has recently stated:

"The emphasis throughout the [1985 Knesset] debate was on that aspect: not on the actual sale or consumption of hametz but on its public display, which would offend feelings of observant and traditional Jews."

Joel Katz
http://religionandstateinisrael.blogspot.com/