Industrializing the Palestinians

The ministry of Health is dead afraid of Salmonella infection of eggs (and coli in lettuce) is trying to end the small cafeterias preparing on site egg and salad sandwiches. They want sandwiches prepared in large factories that can be inspected and supervised, and the sandwiches sold in vacuum plastic with date of production and the stamp of the ministry. It makes sense, and in general there is an improvement in the quality of Israeli foodstuffs. Of course, lots of small eateries are going to be put out of business.

Now I am working on a boiled egg factory, that would sell sterile pasteurized hard eggs to those sandwich factories and restaurants. The entrepreneur is a Palestinian Arab owner of the underground parking space (pic)  in an Arab town's industrial area and his Jewish partners. They bought Chinese machinery, the instructions are in Chinese, which no one here able to read them. The Arab is religious and built a small mosque above. There is a problem with kashrut, not because his religion but because Jewish rules forbid eating blood, and the planned process will not eliminate eggs with "hashash" - suspicion that an egg with some blood may get mixed with the others. The food expert says that hiring a full-time ultraorthodox mashgiach (ritual supervisor) may solve the issue. A black kaftaned Jew wandering around with a Gemara in his hands, in an Arab factory, will be a curiosity. I sensed no hostility in the place. In general, I work a lot with Palestinians, and never found any stress in their attitude, I think the supposed Arab-Jewish hostility is non-existent at street level. It is something invented at Western universities, that is what they think should be, and the Arabs tell them what they think they want to hear.