JERUSALEM, Oct. 30 (UPI) -- An Israeli maker of home carbonation systems said Thursday it would close a West Bank factory that prompted a call to boycott the company's products.
SodaStream International Ltd. announced the plant in the Mishor Adumin industrial zone will close in 2015. It said work at the plant, and at another in northern Israel, will be relocated, and stressed it was a "purely commercial" decision not tied to Palestinian steps to boycott Israeli businesses in West Bank or east Jerusalem. SodaStream has contended with supporters of Palestinian statehood and those in the "boycott, divert and sanctions" movement.