 Joining us for an evening time shop today in Rami Lavi. This place is like the main grocery store in Israel. Israel is famous for its fruit. You can see we have oranges grapefruit all the things and this is Shufrasal in Jerusalem on our grown street They also do appliances. The other big Israeli grocery store is called Rami Lavi I'm not sure why I'm making videos this because the truth is shopping in Israel isn't so different from shopping anywhere else except naturally the prices are in shekels and the writings in Hebrew, but you know after seven years I am accustomed to it. This place is really nice Shufrasal. They even have a green section by which they mean like healthy products gluten-free products all that kind of stuff so if you go over here We can see they have the Shufrasal green range this in Hebrew means almond flour whole wheat pasta So before I moved to Israel. I had this irrational fear That Israel was a backward country And you couldn't find stuff like whole wheat bread in it and it proved to be completely unfounded this in Hebrew up here the low gluten means gluten-free and They have here a whole range of gluten-free products So if you're a celiac or gluten intolerant and thinking about making aliyah Do not be stopped for this reason they have it all So it's really cool. I Shopping here at night time. They have a whole cheese counter shopping in Israel is for sure expensive This is the bread bread counter in general everything you find in the supermarket is going to be kosher If you want to check the certification you need to basically read The back of labels and you can see exactly what type of kosher it is. This is like the kind of most standard bread that there is It's kosher parve So, you know, if you're not Jewish You're not gonna care about these things, but if you are It's nice to have your needs catered to So yeah, this is Decided to make this movie or video here because it's relatively empty and Less people gonna be asking what the hell I'm doing with this video camera. Dairy is expensive in Israel. So food prices in Israel Have been in the news repeatedly and dairy is expensive because all the dairy has to be kosher and that needs to be Certified by the revenues. So the prices here. This is 13 tackles for 100 grams of cheese You can work out the rate in dollars. It's gonna naturally change By the day, but it's all pretty expensive cheese here is pricey kosher meat compared to if you keep kosher water cost abroad is like Not so expensive But the rest of the stuff does tend to be expensive But most importantly to have everything here is the plastic aisle now Israel is trying to phase out its use of Single-use plastics by punitively taxing these and I think it's a great idea. I'm not gonna say too much about this but certain This is already gonna sound bad certain segments of the population here use these much more than others and I think it's terrible that it's such a Culturally accepted thing in Israel. So I'm glad they're phasing these out. Here. We have some dried goods. We have tomato products tomato paste We have olives So shoe for sale online shopping, by the way, does exist in Israel This is shoe for sale, which as I mentioned at the start of this video is like kind of I Guess you could call it The main chain in Israel Rami Lavi is second. So these these shops do deliver as you can order your stuff online They'll pick it deliver it, you know, just like other countries Rami Lavi In Jerusalem, they don't do it in most other places. They do and then there's a bunch of kind of second tier Supermarkets, but Rami Lavi and shoe for sale would be the two main ones Who's the oils? So my wife Hannah who made an appearance in the last video has corrected me She says to your firms that the high price of dairy has nothing to do with the kosher stuff apparently has to do instead was the Monopolies and the high price of imports So anyway, certain things you'll find in much more abundance in Israel is ready supermarkets than in other countries such as Tehina Tehina is ground up sesame paste. So if you love Tehina, I absolutely can't get enough of it Then look at what an amazing situation you have. We have let's see one two three four five six Seven eight nine ten. There's at least like I don't know 15 types here You can get your Tehina from whole sesame seeds You can get your store brand Tehina. So this is shoe for sales own brand It's becoming more of a thing in Israel, which is great because it's gonna bring down prices It's kind of own brand stuff and then there's this other type as well I'll show you the hummus. I'll if I get time You're gonna go crazy because it's amazing. All right enough is the introductions last get to the important subject matter so all in Israel. Yes, it exists is not a Totalitarian Islamic State fortunately certain things is ready's Really going for more than others and I've never been exactly care on why for instance case in point. Let's shoot I mentioned before when I was in when I was in the north of Israel It's really big here and I'm not exactly sure why they have this strong kind of 8% stuff craft beer There is craft beer is ready craft beer is the thing and you can also buy non-Israeli craft beer Left blue moon. So if you're a bit of a beer fan Looking to make aliyah and you're worried about the availability of beer and let me rest put you a short So there's also is ready craft beer. So this is Malka, which is an Israeli craft beer This is negative named after the negative desert 4.7% and the kind of two main beers in Israel would be two main local beers Your kind of standard average beer is Makhabi. This is Makhabi here They also make a strong product 7.9% and then you have a gold star and a few different types And you can get everything else you have whiskey martini Let me show you stuff. That's more unique to this part of the world. There's a big product here called Iraq popular Middle Eastern spirit and this is one of the main brands here is called Eric Ashkelon and They've two types here, but you'll find more in some stores and really As well as more of a wine Country than it is a beer country. I'm going through I was gonna say scrolling through going through the red wines here This is kind of your standard Basic not so expensive wine. It's called bar can and they're selling bottles here for 28 shekels So like not crazy expensive That's the reds. This is moving into the whites and there is Rose too. So this is the alcohol aisle so perhaps If you're thinking about moving to Israel, you worried about the availability of alcohol What can I say? It is an abundance here. I'd love to see more is ready craft beer I think there's a lot of potential in the scene. I'd love to see is ready craft cider There is one that they don't stock here called. I'm at Cisa But it would be cool to see other is joining as well moving into the meat section Israel here's a cool fact that you probably didn't know I think Correct me if I'm wrong in the comments or I'll correct myself I believe Israel is the world's number one per capita consumer of Turkey and this is great for me because of the fact that I'm on a low-fat diet after my gallbladder surgeries thing So this is where's the fat percentage on this? It's probably right in front of me and I'm just not seeing it That's actually not super low fat. Anyway So the great thing about living in Israel if you keep kosher is that by default if you go to a kosher supermarket like Shufasal The meat's gonna be kosher. So again, you just kind of look around for The certification and it's gonna be Some type of kosher this one here says cashier baserie so kosher is either Meat kosher dairy kosher our part kosher here We see more evidence of the proliferation of own brand goods in Israel So this says Shufasal. It's the name of the grocery store. This is our own line of sastras now the burning question You're all wanting to know as well. What does a homeless aisle look like in Israel? I'm not sure anyone's done footage of this on YouTube. So let me Show you guys starting left moving right moving right moving right moving right moving right what do we have here? We have some home brand Thomas and it's 14 shackles for 1 kg. That's about like I don't I'm gonna say $4 and This is a whole aisle So Israelis are really big Into what they call a Salah team and that is kind of a category I mean, I mean salads literally in English, but you've got your tomato based products like Matbukha You've got your spicy products and of course you've got your hummus Hummus will come with either plain hummus or you'll get it with various toppings So this says hummus in the Hariff Hariff is like spicy Supermarket staff are kind of looking at me. We're the like why is this guy? Filming random things of hummus, but it's totally okay. This one says hummus in him a pill pill So this has got kind of like Zatar and some kind of a pill pelting going on here And this is hummus in to China So if you love hummus and you love to China, you can combine your loves They've got some to China kind of like splattered on the top of the hummus Unbelievable so there is plenty of Salah team and hummus here available. All right, let's talk a little bit about these So dairy in Israel is expensive as I mentioned previously There's this thing here called the Bulgari to literally means that means in Hebrew Bulgarian and it's basically a white cheese and you can see they have 5% so that's pretty low and fat. So you'll find a lot of that apparently Bulgarian cheese isn't like a Thing in Bulgaria. I've been told besides that you'll have these kind of monopolistic brands of cheese What else is big in Israel cottage cheese is really big here it comes in various types of strengths and there's one other great product If you are moving to Israel, they're big into feta cheese as well Here you have feta cheese at different strength fat sentences One thing that's really big here is called labna. I'm trying to find it on the shelf. I'm probably missing it Labneh 5% so this is basically strange yogurt. You put it through a yogurt strainer If you are from a Middle Eastern country, you don't need to know what lab or you already know what labna is Really good and you can find it quite commonly here as well as it. They're slightly different product called the Gvena, Lebanon So I think where shopping in Israel gets really expensive is all this kind of your frozen meals So it is you are starting to find stuff like kind of pre-prepared Called zone ease and pizza, but if you look at the prices 17 shackles for like an owned supermarket brand, you know, I'm sure pretty not special cheese pizza That's like what three four dollars That's kind of typical. That is definitely expensive So but they do have this kind of even the frozen section reflects the interesting Cuisines in Israel or the culinary influences like this Malawak and this Jackman, which is like a Yemenite Bread so these are available frozen I'm moving here into ice cream now. What's what you're gonna see is gonna surprise you Ben and Jerry's isn't Ben and Jerry's anti-Israel now. So from what I gather Ben and Jerry's local Subsidery is like locally Israeli owned. So you'll still see Ben and Jerry's quite commonly because I guess There's lots of American expats here and they love Ben and Jerry's and not particularly came on it either way But you'll still see it and people are trying to separate their boycott of the parent company from the local Company and most importantly Netflix and Chilt is available here in Israel so given the kind of people in Israel the mixture of expats and Israelis you can see there's a mixture of international brands like Cheerios Nestle Nesquik and then all these kind of Israeli brands. So it's kind of like this across product categories. There's kind of Just different stuff here and as I mentioned a few times already you got your corn flakes You got your frosties. You still have these as a kid Real mixture here of different products if you're too lazy to cook Home cooked food then fortunately are covered on many fronts here but particularly on the schnitzel front so they have fish fingers they have different types of schnitzel and there is also Shufrasal growing range of own brand schnitzel you have your Home schnitzel with the chip coating you have your your other schnitzel So great place for schnitzel lovers here, and there's frozen vegetarian products to corn schnitzel You can see here. It says in Hebrew schnitzel tiris So that's your if you are a vegetarian or vegan there are lots of products in Israeli supermarkets to keep you fit and Nourished perhaps the most one of the most exciting culinary developments in the supermarket team in recent years was the arrival of Salt and vinegar crisps elite one of the big Israeli Whatever monopoly a legoply things going on here and they brought their salt and vinegar crisps to market crisps to market Amongst great excitement among immigrants especially those of course from the UK and like me from Ireland How are they is a big question? Well, they're actually pretty good. I think they're a little bit too salty, but They have changed my life in a positive way here. We have the yogurt section lots of Greek yogurt and first lot fiends decent 0.9% yogurt there and There is as I said, there's a very strong vegan tradition in Israel So we have here both our regular dairy milks Clearing 1% skim to milk is not here in Israel But there is 3% milk 1% milk and you'll also find here almond milk soya milk and various dairy free alternatives if you are vegan or lactose intolerant or whatever and these dangerously addictive Ice coffee things pre-made are here as well self-checkout came about last year So it's now possible to check out your own goods here in the supermarket and the barcodes and Pay for your goods that way and then you can leave the supermarket with your with your shopping So that's it. We've done our grocery shopping It's a Sunday here in Israel. So it's kind of like the first day of the week Definitely takes a bit of getting used to but now I'm nicely Stuck up on my Low-fat foods for the week now Hope this is interesting if you ever wondered What it's like to do your grocery shopping in Israel. Well, I guess the answer is that it's not really Very different from any other country, but it's fun in its own way This was a shoe for sale probably my favorite place to do groceries, but they're all kind of the same Thank you guys for watching. If you want to like get more videos for me Please feel free to subscribe to this YouTube channel