07.02.2011                     03.Adar l, 5771

Netanya:

A day after fire destroys flagship store, IKEA starts picking up the pieces

The building itself will be knocked down and rebuilt entirely; the management says it expects to reopen within six months to a year.

IKEA's flagship store in Netanya was entirely destroyed by a fire on Saturday, but you wouldn't have known it to judge by shoppers at its other branch, in Rishon Letzion.
Once you entered the company's offices, however, things looked different. The hallways were full of people, many of whom had been working in Netanya until the fire destroyed everything. People and their laptops were squeezed into every office….