Boring for the Palestinian Authority? It turns out that in addition to covering what is happening in Judea and Samaria and documenting the search for the three kidnapped people, the Palestinian Authority's correspondents are having fun in the cell.
This morning (Friday), an innocent-looking ad was published in Hafels, in the Bnei Torah faction newspaper, which read: "Looking for a Jewish groom for a thirty-year-old girl who is converting to Judaism. The parents are providing an apartment." The ad, of course, went viral and was distributed on social media, along with cynical comments.
But singles and matchmakers who wanted to find out about the bride and win the apartment were surprised to discover that the number in the ad belonged to none other than Itamar Fleishman, Minister Naftali Bennett's new spokesman, who until recently was Maariv's territories correspondent.
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So what really happened there?
Akiva Novik, the Territories correspondent for Yedioth Ahronoth, posted a status on his Facebook page that explains everything. "Don't miss the trolling battle in the Territories correspondent's booth," Novik begins. "It started when a well-known Haredi businessman and quite a snob started harassing me with endless phone calls.
""I gave him Chaim D. Levinson's number, along with a promise that he was an attentive and kind journalist. Levinson was not confused and gave him Itamar Fleishman's number with the same promise.".
Fleishman decided not to remain silent and initiated the execution of "Revenge A: In the middle of the week, an ad for the delivery of a ferret with Levinson's number was published on the Yad2 website.".
Now it was the turn of Levinson, Haaretz's territories correspondent, to respond, and he produced "Revenge B: This morning, an ad was published in the Haredi newspaper Hapeles in which Fleishman promises an apartment to whoever marries his daughter.".
Novick concludes: "Revenge C: Open to suggestions.".
Incidentally, it turns out that unlike Fleishman, who was not forced to pay a shekel for revenge, Levinson was forced to spend 50 shekels on an advertisement in Friday's Hafels, which is distributed free of charge in Jerusalem.
• Itamar, does advertising in Hafels work?
""All in all, it's a bit of a prank between friends. Creativity that doesn't cost money is 'worth' more than what it did... Instead of Akiva Novick, I would sleep with one eye open... And by the way, conversations came.".
Revenge number 1:
Revenge number 2:
