Who will live: The false rumors on WhatsApp, the ones that kill people with the flick of a finger, struck again yesterday - this time focusing on singer Margalit Tzanani, 'Margol'.
Yesterday, in the evening, rumors began to spread on WhatsApp, supposedly in the name of ZAKA, that the singer was found dead at her mother's house in Rosh HaAyin.
As is the way with WhatsApp, within minutes the false revelation spread, and even the secular gossip writers began calling the spy to ask how she was doing.
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The one who felt a special need to call and explain was ZAKA chairman Yehuda Meshi-Zahav, whose false message was signed in the name of his organization.
This is how it sounds:
Gold Silk: ""Hello, Margol. How did you receive the best blessing before Rosh Hashanah?"
Spying: I know...
Gold Silk: What a virtue for longevity, I wish everyone would accept it like that.
Spying: Who am I talking to?
Gold Silk: Silk. Silk of Judah's Gold
Spying: Really? Seriously?
Gold Silk: We've been friends for how long? We've known each other for fifty years...
Spying: True
Gold Silk: You know the WhatsApp disease. Yesterday, while I was in the middle of a trip to the north, I saw messages starting to circulate in the name of ZAKA.
Spying: I was really scared about this...
Gold Silk: Why do people write ZAKA? Because they know it gains credibility. I immediately wrote in every group: 'Anyone who issues a statement in the name of ZAKA will be sued.' That's how I immediately responded.
Spying: Very beautiful.
Gold Silk: I've already told my CEO, on Sunday morning I'm going to file a complaint, I took screenshots. People must know once and for all that not everyone uses the name ZAKA. After all, ZAKA can check the news. We never publish things like that, even in things we publish we don't publish names, even less so in false things.
Spying: Thank you. Thank you. I'm glad you called, my dear. I know it's regret. We understood it was regret.
Gold Silk: Obviously. They do it cleverly, first they write "famous public figure." And then they also write the name.
Spying: I thank you.
Gold Silk: I wish you a long, long, long life. If you were injured, there is a blessing in that. I will invite you to some ZAKA event that everyone will see...
Spying: Come on, order. This is my phone number. Order. I'll come voluntarily. Of my own free will. So I write "Rabbi Yehuda Meshi Zahav.".
Gold Silk: Not the Rabbi...
Spying: Good. In my opinion.
Gold Silk: And on Sunday we will file the complaint.
Spying: Thank you, dear.
Gold Silk: Shabbat Shalom. Happy New Year. Be strong and courageous.
That was really (not) nice...
