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MK Rabbi Gafni Meets With Food Processors to Lower Food Prices
"Every tax reduction of raw products will be transmitted directly to the consumer," Dan Propper, chairman of Osem, promised the chairman of the Knesset Finance Committee. Rabbi Moshe Gafni met with him and the company's CEO in the context of a series of tours which Rabbi Gafni has scheduled with the heads of the leading food companies in order to explore the possibilities of lowering food prices for the consumer and getting help from the companies to formulate relevant legislation that will help the public.
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