Not Kosher? No business: Jerusalem eatery closes after 8 years of operation

appearances and smokin mirrors .... for centuries, the days of ibrahim that whole region has been ownedand ruled by theocrats . just run away... to greener pastures

As Nir Barkt said, "This is a private matter". The Ba'al haMeah, Mr. Levy, in this case is the Ba'al haDeah. There are plenty of non-kosher restaurants in Jerusalem, and when the owner the this one, that was closed finds a venue where the owner of property is not as partucular about kashrut, or opening "seven days a week", he can operate again. Then again this "seven day a week" thing is not standard operating procedure in some restaurants in the States--some of the very best fife-star restaurants close on Monday for all sorts of reason only resaurantuers know. Reasons that Restobar ought to find out, perhaps. Funny how Mr. Levi, who sells glasses and closes on Shabbat and holidays is able to make enough profit "without the hordes of shoppers" that rust up to the Malls on the Jewish Day of Rest, very likely in France, too, and give charity. Looks like a clear case of not only the choice not to offer kosher food, and a hightly developend profit motive..

I think Mr Levy is about to find out that this is not 'a private matter'. It smacks of forcing submission, blackmail-style coercion, religious zealotry, and ultimately punishment, which you ask us to overlook, because Laurent Levy is charitable. I hope the World shows him its displeasure. Let's see ... 'there's a new world coming'

Obviously you do not live in Israel. The religious parties in Israel have a choke hold on any government due to the fact that the government needs their votes and the Knesset seats they win in order to form a government. So these laws are forced on Israelis, not laws that are requested to be made by the majority, but only by the few.

that this absurd law was established and enforced in the first place. And all those people claiming that this is turning Israel into just another State like all the others around the world is as ignorant as all the other nutjobs in the other parts of the world we prefer not to be associated with... Hopefully, the fact that we don't have any charedi/ultra orthodox parties in the government will enable us to progress as a nation. To a one we so like to call the exemplary one to all the other nations. Only that way we will seek true redemption.. May G-D's light shine upon all of the ones who can't see, may those who can see light the brightness and love of G-D to all of those who declare war on pluralism and the acceptance of the other.

We hate them all.

This is the democracy that we have in Israel. A 'You do as we tell you' democracy, not a true democracy, for the people by the people.

The problem is that this religious observant person BOUGHT one of the most successful non kosher place in Jerusalem and THEN tried to force it to change. If he was so worried about benefitting indirectly from business during shabbat, he shouldn't have bought this place in the first place. There is no other word than religious coercion to describe what happened there. I don't understand why people always try to impose their beliefs on others.... Do they get satisfaction from the tyrannical approach they have to religion? Is this what religion is about?