Businessman Rami Levi told Rabbi Gid'on Perl of Alon Shevut and Chairman Aryeh King of the Israel Lands Fund this week that organizational changes were made at his supermarket in Gush Etzion to separate Arab boxboys from Jewish cashiers. He also promised the rabbi that he would appoint someone at the outlet to avoid relationships developing between the two groups. A meeting between the three followed a recent Arutz Sheva report about a cashier who was prepared to leave home due to her relationship with a boxboy. The boxboy was fired and the cashier quit.
The Lehava anti-assimilation organization called for further steps, including the firing of the woman in charge of cashiers, accused by Lehava of knowing about and encouraging the relationship. Arutz Sheva received a letter from cashiers protesting the report, saying the relationship was the only one of its kind. Executive Director Bentzi Gopstein of Lehava said the couple in question was not isolated.