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Why the Same Face Cream Costs 2.5x More in Israel
A listener bought a La Roche-Posay face cream in a Jerusalem pharmacy for 160 shekels — the same cream cost her about $17 on Amazon in the U.S. the week before. This episode pulls apart the Israeli cosmetics cost stack layer by layer: VAT, customs duty, Health Ministry registration fees, retail concentration, and the exclusive importer arrangements that the Economy Ministry itself once blasted in a report titled "The Inconceivable Gluttony of the International Manufacturers and Exclusive Importers Exposed." We look at Super-Pharm's 53% value share and 72% store-count dominance, the…
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