Yesterday, Ha’aretz—Israel’s oldest newspaper—sent home all of its regular reporters and contributors, and replaced them with famous literary scribes. It might sound like a gimmick to woo readers (and it is, in part), but the results yielded unexpected delights.
Avri Herling, a cookbook and children’s-book author, wrote the business update:
Everything’s okay. Everything’s like usual. Yesterday trading ended. Everything’s okay. The economists went to their homes, the laundry is drying on the lines, dinners are waiting in place… Dow Jones traded steadily and closed with 8,761 points, Nasdaq added 0.9% to a level of 1,860 points…. The guy from the shakshuka [an Israeli egg-and-tomato dish] shop raised his prices again…
Ha’aretz Gets Creative
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i loved that stuff
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