KFC has reopened its Israel franchise. But KFC Israel is basically is to Israel how CNN is to news (or how the Biden Hate Department is to foreign policy vs. the Trump State Department).
It's mostly for Arabs. The ones in Jewish cities are not kosher. They want one in Tel Aviv. They might as well have it at the Tel Aviv Central Bus Station if they are going for the goy market. A certain type of people live in and near the bus station.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KFC_Israel KFC Israel (Hebrew: קנטאקי פרייד צ'יקן) is the Israeli franchise of KFC, which opened its first branch in Israel in the 1980. The chain closed its last location in 2012. In February 2020, the chain re-entered the country. Currently there are 5 branches located in Nazareth, Daliyat al-Karmel, Baqa al-Gharbiyye, Yarka, and at the Cinema City in Be'er Sheba. The company has plans to open 10 more locations, including a flagship location in Tel Aviv.
I added to the kashrut section of the article.
Kashrut
In 2009 KFC Israel received permission, after two years of requesting, to replace their milk-based coating with a soy-based coating.[5] By making this substitution KFC was able to make their locations in Israel kosher, even though the kosher branches already had non-dairy coating. Two out of the eight locations at the time were transitioned into kosher locations; however, the soy coating was utilized at all locations.[13] KFC Israel stated that the new coating tasted identical to the old one,[14] however the former owner later admitted going kosher was the reason for their failure.[15] Religious Jews are critical of that claim and hold that "there should at least be one kosher location stating there are many KFC locations worldwide that people that don't keep kosher can go to and that opening in Israel and not making it kosher defeats the purpose since American Jews love going to kosher American chains as part of their trips to Israel". They also say "if KFC wants to open only non-kosher branches in Israel, it's just doing it for money and not to fill a need".