In 2020, as the holiday approached, many in the country embarked on a real-life egg hunt, trading rumors of stores with fresh supplies or gray market egg dealers, and awaited promised planeloads of the fragile food item to arrive.
In one telling scene, El Al shared videos and pictures of its planes being filled to the brim with cartons, even using passenger seats to buckle in the fragile cargo.
Now the government is again scrambling to head off predictions of another shortage of eggs, as well as wheat and other grains, just as the holiday arrives, this time thanks to the war in Ukraine.
Israelis eat an average of 240 eggs a year, or 20 per month, slightly higher than average for the world. On Passover, though, with many other foods prohibited by religious and state fiat, egg consumption goes up by 10% to 22 eggs per person. READ MORE
