Groundbreaking Ceremony for New IKEA in Eshtaol

IKEA has announced the opening of its fifth store in Israel,in Eshtaol, right outside Beit Shemesh in early 2020.The new store will be ​​25,000 square meters, and according to IKEA's announcement, will recruit 400 new employees.Yesterday, IKEA Israel's owners, Matthew Bronfman and Shalom Fisher, CEO Shuki Koblenz, Head of the Mateh Yehuda Regional Council Niv Wiesel and chairman of the Histadrut, Yoav Simchi, laid the cornerstone for the new store's building.According to Shuki Koblenz, IKEA Israel's CEO "Despite the reports that IKEA-Sweden and the world's stores are laying off employees, Ikea-Israel will recruit about 400 new employees for the opening of the store. We aspire that the IKEA store in Eshtaol will be one of the leading stores in Israel and worldwide. "