French kitchenware company Tefal has removed all mention of Israel from its website, replacing it with Palestine. The website of the international company, famous for its nonstick pans, provides all kinds of information on its products, including the location of stores that sell its products around the world. But if a potential customer tries to locate stores in Israel, they will find that there is no such option under the category "Middle East" -- instead, a store in Jerusalem is said to be situated in "Palestine." The Jerusalem store is located in the Atarot industrial zone -- not in an area under Palestinian sovereignty. The word Israel does not appear anywhere on the site. Even in the "contact us" section, the user receives the following message: "Please select your country in the drop-down menu below. You'll get the contact details of your local Tefal Consumer Service." Though all of Israel's neighbors appear as options on the menu, Israel does not. Instead, the user can select the country "Palestine." Newpan, the company that imports Tefal products to Israel, was surprised to learn that Israel does not appear on the Tefal website. "The issue will be handled as soon as possible," the company said in a statement.
