Häagen-Dazs ice cream in Israel is under threat, and may become a
rarity on supermarket shelves. According to a recent kashrut update
from the Chief Rabbinate, Häagen-Dazs is not approved by the State
Rabbinical Authority, and stores and outlets with kashrut
certification that continue to sell the ice cream could lose their
kashrut license. Because Häagen-Dazs is made with unsupervised liquid
milk, as opposed to milk powder, the marketing and sale of the ice
cream in establishments and outlets with kashrut certification is not
acceptable and constitutes "a severe infringement of kashrut
procedures." General Mills, which markets Häagen-Dazs in Israel,
underlined that the ice cream bears kosher certification from the
Orthodox Union in the US and pointed out that it is consumed by the
religious and secular communities in Israel and abroad.



