I am very amused by your article about the amount of chocolate consumed by Israelis as compared to the West. While Israeli has many wonderful snack and prepared food, chocolate is not among them. If Israel produced or imported fine chololate, maybe the Israelis would discover the joys of this delicious snack or dessert.

Sandra, I'm not sure I can mention product names directly here, so let's just say you haven't met The Bald Man of Israeli chocolates. To me, most Israeli processed packaged snacks, esp. the one they give to babies are abominations.

Israelis like chocolates of different types than mentioned here.

#3 is correct. Israelis likely eat less chocolate than others because the large producers make a poor product. Max Brenner is the best Israeli chocolate I've had.

Hell, Max Brenner is one of the best chocolates in the world! Take that all you people out there in the policitical forums who call me a Jewish Jew Hater!

Apparently you must have made a serious miscalculation because for the chocolate spreads you are coming to an average price of 5,230 USD per kg which is of course impossible.

But are chocolate spreads really chocolate, or just "chocolate flavoured?"

Elite totally dominates the chocolate market in Israel with poor quality chocolate and a cow for a logo! Indeed, the cow should smile as opposition chocolates turn into curds and go away (whey). When Cadbury Schweppes tried to market their world famous and excellent chocolate in Israel, Elite managed to get a court order to stop distribution and the "wishy washy" Israeli consumer organizations sat back in total apathy! Nestle’ chocolate products are marketed here with very little advertising. It should be noted that Nestle owns about 50% of Osem and this has resulted in an Arab call to boycott Nestle (http://www.inminds.co.uk/boycott-nestle.html). Apparently Cadbury Schweppes decided to write off its $4 million investment here and did not pursue the matter. Elite's action against Cadbury was pure protectionism for their inferior chocolate products and the courts should never have allowed the interdict on imports of Cadbury Chocolate. Lindt, Toblerone, French, Dutch and numerous Eastern European brands are imported and sold in Israel. The success of Elites virtual chocolate monopoly makes Bibi Netanyahu's free enterprise policy laughable as this happened on his watch. The Israeli system stills shies away from allowing competition when it comes to the historical "giants" of Israeli industry. Bezeq is another example of protectionism with the ludicrous decision not to allow Israeli communication companies to market VoIP and Bezeq's marketing of high priced 5Mb Internet connections when much of Europe is already on 8Mb. Whether it is Elite, Bezeq or the Israel Electric Corp., the name of the game is still Monopoly and any quasi government Consumer body is a joke!

Belgium produces the finest beer + chocolate in the world and it's too bad that Israeli consumers do not have enough outlets to buy these products