[Avodah] $100,000 Check Found in Western Wall - NOT!!!

[David Eisen]

My apologies for jumping the gun on posting this story yesterday that
admittedly sounded quite bogus to me as well. What lent the story
credibility to me was the identity of the reporter, Kobi Nahshoni, who is a
first-rate reporter on religious affairs with a high degree of
professionalism, IMHO, together with the actual report filed with the police
by the Rav of the Kotel. It turns out that the father of the yeshiva student
indeed contacted the Western Wall Authority after being told by his son of
his "find" in the Wall, and only after the police launched their
investigation and questioned the student did he admit to contriving the
entire story, and no motive was given.
http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4104522,00.html (though talkback #3
places on interesting spin on the story)

BTW - R. Yuval Cherlow addressed the question yesterday and said that he
could not render an opinion without knowing the full details, though if the
facts set forth in the article are correct, then the check surely belongs to
the Kotel Authority as it was made out to "the Holy Kotel."
http://www.kipa.co.il/ask/show/249664

Shabbat [Hazon] Shalom u'B'vinyan Yerushalaim Nenuham ,
David
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