Big Group shopping centers: We will not force the tenants to close their businesses Tuesday

Big Group announced that it will not force the tenants to close their businesses. After the new announcement, the company's share rose by about a percent after yesterday falling by 2.7%. Contrary to rumors, Big stands behind her decision," the company claimed and added: "When preserving democracy is the basis of her decision, Big stands behind her announcement.

At the same time, as many as there are tenants in the centers who ask to open, she will respect their wishes and will not prevent them from doing so. In order to encourage tenants to participate in the strike, stores that will join the shutdown of the centers tomorrow will not pay rent for that day."​The Big Group, which owns dozens of shopping centers and malls and serves hundreds of thousands of customers every day, announced that if the law to abolish the reason for reasonableness is approved tomorrow in the first reading in the Knesset, it will join the initiative started by the high-tech groups to shut down the economy as a protest and will close all of its centers on Tuesday.
"Such legislation would be a fatal blow to Israel's business and economic certainty, and would directly and immediately endanger our existence as a leading company in Israel," the group said. "In order to protest unusually and prevent the passage of this corrupt legislation, we will participate in the shutdown day planned for Tuesday. The Big centers from Kiryat Shmona to Eilat will be shut down and closed. When the country is shaking and torn from the inside, we cannot sit on the fence, and when necessary and with the progress of the legislation and the looting of the public purse that we financiers, we will even step up our steps."
This is not the first time that the real estate group has gone against the government and made moves that challenge its major competitors, the Azrieli and Melisron mall groups. Even during the Corona period, Big was the first to go against the government's measures and while the government procrastinated, the group's CEO Hai Galis announced that he is not waiting for approval The government and opens the shopping centers in the green cities.
Against this background, the supporters of the legislation began to advertise on the networks that they would boycott the Big Group following the move. Minister Itamar Ben Gvir tweeted on his Twitter account: "I am also boycotting the Big Group until they retract and apologize. Business owners who intervene politically and boycott half a nation deserve condemnation from all shades of the political spectrum. A law to abolish the probable cause
Yesterday, the organizers of the protests revealed that on Tuesday, which they call "Resistance Day", a "huge demonstration" will be held at Ben Gurion Airport - after a large and quite stormy demonstration was held there this week, which ended with dozens of arrests. She has a vote tomorrow despite all those who act in bullying."
"If the legislation does pass on the second, next Tuesday will be declared the first day of resistance for the month of July," the protest leaders said. "During the day of resistance on Tuesday, starting at 8:00 a.m., the organizations will hold demonstrations, marches, convoys and disruptions across the country. At 4:00 p.m., there will be a huge demonstration at Ben Gurion Airport, and starting at 8:00 p.m., there will be continuous demonstrations and marches in Israeli cities."
The organizations, which call themselves the "organizations of the fight against dictatorship", called on the general public "to prepare this coming Tuesday in order to join the day of resistance, should the Israeli government actually pass the dictatorship law on Monday night." They claimed that many sectors and sectors have "already mobilized" and that employers and companies will allow their employees to be absent, businesses will suspend operations and many employees intend to inform their employers tomorrow of their intention to be absent from work, "including employees who are unionized within the Histadrut", according to the message.
These words were said hours after dozens of CEOs of high-tech companies opposing the legal revolution announced that workers who want to participate in the demonstrations this coming Tuesday will be able to do so without taking a day off. Among the companies: Kaito, Papia Global, Faber, Iron Source, Taito Carr, Natural Intelligence Ness, Skai and Nexar. Venture capital funds, including Kumara Capital, Gigi Levi Weiss' NFX and Tal Barnouh's Deserative, will participate in the protest. The high-tech organizations say that by Tuesday they expect about 100 companies to join the initiative.