Data from Automatic Banking Services, the operator of the national credit card payment system, show that in September there was an increase of more than 10% in the volume of purchases in online transactions, but in physical purchases in credit cards there was a decrease of about 12.5%.
It also shows that for the first time since the first closure in March and April 2020, in September there was a 0.7% decrease in Israeli credit card spending compared to last year. In addition, the volume of cash withdrawals shrank this month by 7.8% compared to September 2019.