The Photoshop That Made the Internet Crazy: "The Rabbinate Made a Miscalculation in the Time of Passover""

April 12, 2015   

למה נאלץ דובר הרבנות להכחיש ידיעה שפורסמה כביכול ב-ynet? אלמוני העלה אל הרשתות החברתיות תצלום פוטושופ של ידיעה מערוץ ynet יהדות כביכול, לפיה חג הפסח השנה, חל בתאריך מוטעה ומכאן שיש לעורכו מחדש בעוד שבועיים וחצי.

Under the somewhat bizarre headline: "Chief Rabbinate - We Made a Mistake in Calculating Passover," the reporter reported that the country's rabbinical institutions announced that due to the weather, it appears that the year's calculation was incorrect, and that we are now in the midst of a leap year.

The humorous news report continued by stating that all preparations for the holiday must be carried out anew, and that the Council of Torah Sages is currently consulting on a subject that is "a complicated halachic issue" and that "the Rabbinate has never encountered before.".

The joke stopped being funny when several reporters contacted the Chief Rabbinate's spokesman to explain the strange news - and he was quick to issue a denial:

""Thank you to the Photoshop artist who let me work for a few hours today to explain that things never existed. A waste of state resources. Something like Niv Asraf, only on a small scale.".

The Ynet website also published a denial, writing: "In recent hours, false and fabricated news has been spreading... It is untrue and its fabrications were intended to cause confusion among the public.".