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Israeli store offers shop and prayer

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JERUSALEM, Oct. 7 (UPI) -- An Israeli supermarket says it will offer ultra-orthodox customers divine intervention -- a chance to go into a synagogue before checking out.

The Big Zol supermarket chain said within days a small synagogue with a holy ark will be installed in its newest store in Migdal Haemek, Yedioth Aharonoth reported Wednesday.

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The supermarket chain, which caters to mainly religious and observant Jews, offers customers strictly kosher food, the newspaper said.

Aware that many of the shoppers pray several times a day in synagogue, the branch managers decided to offer the option of utilizing the time in a check-out line, the paper said.

Before opening their purse strings, customers will be able to catch a quick prayer at the synagogue -- perhaps to seek divine intervention on the bill.

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