voluntary report public distribution date 11 3 2006 gain number gm6036 germany kosher foods the food and beverage market in approved by bobby richey jr us embassy prepared kerstin krueger highlights only a limited of statistics are available for german mainly because it is an extremely small however compared to previous reporting period consumers interested products as well stores selling has increased although size jewish community more than tripled over past 12 years very few consume on daily basis about 4 percent nevertheless there growing demand based efforts made organizations re cultivate life traditions estimated 60 70 population consumes mostly during holidays or special occasions domestic production roughly 95 all imported from israel france holland belgium united states includes psd changes no trade matrix unscheduled berlin gm1 gm summary some