The Largest Health Food Store In The Mideast
by Karin Kloosterman, Tel Aviv 
on 04.27.07
Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye -- everyone in the Middle East. Saddle your camels – Israel is announcing that it is to open the largest health food store in the region and among one of the largest in the world, reports Israel Today. Israelis are definitely slow in adopting the recycling/green lifestyle, but when they do get around to it – they do it with gusto.
Eden Teva Market, a $6 million project invested by businessman Guy Provisor is expected to open this June in Netanya. On its shelves will be stocked more than 14,000 products in 20 different departments, which will include a bakery, a deli, an organic hummus stand, and an ice cream parlor – to name a few. Organic will be a focus but also specialized products manufactured by small companies will be kept in stock. Israel Today writes that the organic and health products market in Israel totals nearly $600 million.
The future mammoth -- Eden Teva Market -- plans to take about 15 percent. Like the advent of big box stores and Walmart, Office Depot and Chapters bookstores in the US, we are still a little concerned about how the smaller health food stores will play out as organics and health products become more popular in Israel.
On one hand, many products can be collected under one roof, but stores such as Eden Teva Market will likely shut out the smaller shops and of course force consumers to drive their cars even for little things like milk. What’s your take? ::Israel Today
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Good to see more organic food reaching the masses in Israeli. I've been to Eden's store in Or Yehuda - organic paradise!
Hopefully Israel's domestic organic market will rival their exports to the UK/Europe one day. But the more the merrier. It's strange that in a land where people are so obsessed with the 'Land', they haven't thought that stopping spraying toxic pesticides and degrading the soil might be a jolly good idea. Eden's new venture give us hope...
Does anyone know how i can get hold of Eden Teva Market's email address & telephone number?
Barry, I don;'t know about the new store but their Or Yehuda shop is at: 8 Hamasger St., Tel. 03-6345471
Beteyavon!
Is the new Eden Teva store far from the railroad station?
Does anyone know if they sell cat food?
Here's their website: http://www.edenteva.co.il/index.php?sid=44&lang=he&act=page&id=13462
It says they're right next to Ikea.
09-893-1500
Yad Charutzim St. 4
Netanya
Sun-Thurs- 9am-10pm
Fri- 8am-3:30pm
see map here: http://www.edenteva.co.il/lhe/acontact%20us/
They're right off the big 'coastal route' highway and it looks like you can get driving directions (ala googlemaps/mapquest) here: http://ymap.co.il/Navigate.aspx?tab=1&CityNmS=%u05E0%u05EA%u05E0%u05D9%u05D4&StreetNmS=%u05D9%u05D3%20%u05D7%u05E8%u05D5%u05E6%u05D9%u05DD&HouseNbrS=5&Mode=1