 Today is Thursday in Jerusalem. We're here in our local supermarket in the neighborhood of back-in-south Jerusalem. This place is called Superdeal It's a relatively small supermarket popular as English speakers And we're just checking out getting our last supplies before Pesach and seeing making this video to show you guys What a supermarket in Israel looks like right before the Pesach holiday start You'll see before Pesach comes all the kind of Pesach staples filling up the supermarket shelves. For instance, we have these Panko crumbs, matzameel-based products What you will not see is Hamet, so even within the selection of chips, for instance, you'll see that the salt and vinegar crisps were discontinued and other products Generally in Israel all the products have Some kind of a kosher certification. It can be parv, basari or echalevi And what you'll see before Pesach is that the Certifications are all it says here in Hebrew, kasher la Pesach. That means it's kosher for Pesach In fact, it says also here in English So all the products were flipped out in the weeks before Pesach so that by the time that it comes to Do your last-minute shopping or even for that matter shop during the holiday of Pesach Intermediate days of holomoids Everything's already turned over. What they do as well is they kind of blank off shelves. So for instance, you're not supposed to see Hamet During Pesach. So you do this in your own home Typically people use kind of, you know, tarpaulin This kind of material and that's why when you go into a supermarket before Pesach in Israel You'll see all these random sections that are covered off. So on the chips oil Everything so this is another interesting instance where you'll have products that are sold the holier like these Doritos This says in Hebrew Doritos, it's a local franchise from elite, which is a big food company here But they have these special wrappers here and these say that they are kosher la Pesach So sometimes you'll see the same products just different specifically kosher la Pesach varieties or they're kosher la Pesach the whole year And then they just add a little able to show that or You'll see specific products that appear on the shelves just before Pesach. So this is where the supermarket has bread usually and Instead of bread we're seeing the last Remaining bread because bread is definitely in the off list. It's Hamet's before Pesach instead of that we'll see Matzah for sale. I want to actually thank the supermarket because The manager did give me permission to film. It's just super nice. Not all places are happy to have Show what they're doing. So it's really nice that this supermarket did. Pesach in Israel. It's not so difficult Because the fact that you can rock up to your local supermarket when I grew up in Ireland, you don't have anything like this There is no there is one supermarket in the whole country with a kosher for Passover section And you had to either order from them or visit physically that supermarket here. You can just walk out This is our local grocery store in Bacchia And you have your whole selection of products You have Como Matbucha, which is a tomato-based dip But everything you know is kosher for Passover You don't need to worry. You don't need to ask the only difference is that some Jews will eat what are called Kittnios during Pesach and some won't so for instance hummus Which is clearly based on chickpeas would be off-limits for Ashkenazi Jews Who observed the prohibition on eating not eating Kittnios, which are generally Small things, but Sephardic Jews will eat these so Sephardim have a wider option on Pesach They'll eat hummus, they'll eat rice, they'll eat all sorts of things That the Ashkenazi Jews won't but there are some dips here that would fall into the category of they are not Kittnios Everybody has something to eat So, you know, I always focus on the priorities. So what alcohol can you have during Pesach? Well, the first thing is Lots and lots of wine in Israel is kosher for Pesach so we can see here We have white, red, rosé So that's kind of what people do. I generally will enjoy a bit of wine over Pesach because the intermediate days of Kola Moed Are kind of semi-festive days. You're not really supposed to work. We'll have friends over maybe have some wine with dinner Now besides wine, there's a couple of other things that are commonly kosher for Pesach for Passover And one of those is this spirit called Arach here and Arach is a kind of Middle Eastern And East-based spirit and that's commonly kosher for Pesach. The other thing you'll see a lot of is a Potato vodka, so specifically vodka that's brewed from potatoes. That's commonly kosher for Passover And we have here other options. We can see lots of fizzy drinks clearly certain things are Do not have to be certified kosher for Passover in the supermarket such as these These rolls so that's it. There's lots of options and we're just doing our Final shop here. This beer is for sure not kosher for Passover. It'll be cleared out before Pesach begins But yeah, there's lots of lots of products here and lots of people are doing their Shopping just before the holiday begins here in Israel tomorrow The key thing to have during Pesach, of course, is matzah and this too is for sale in the local grocery store So you can either buy matzah in these kind of large multipacks. This pack contains five or you can just buy it pack by pack As well as that you'll find different types of matzah catering to different dietary needs. So we have here Matzah meal with spelt oats and different varieties for people, you know Who can't tolerate gluten. So there is for instance, we have some whole spelt matzah that clearly does have gluten But in the bigger sweet markets, you'll find matzah made out of oats as I said and stuff that is really gluten-free So yeah, there's a lot of different options here in the matzah department In addition to Pesach this year in Israel is what's called Shemitah Shemitah occurs every seventh year Biblically ordained ordinance only observed in Israel during which the land has to lie fallow So what that that specific certification is attesting to is the fact that all the produce you can see here Has been taken in accordance with the mitzvah of Shemitah. So we have an interesting Confluence of holidays observances in Israel this year Additionally the supermarkets will stock special products So this is one of them horse radish because it's one of the key components of The seder plate. So this is something you won't see in Israel during the year And it's probably an unusual thing to find even the most supermarkets So everything you need for your seder place you can find here at your local grocery store