76: Going, Going, Gone
Israel Story
Israel Story
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2022
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
In our season finale, we tell four short stories of things that, like our current season, are coming to an end: From a toddler parting with a “special friend” to a couple seeing their life's work go up in flames, and from a stubborn hold-out in a dying industry to an unusually long marriage. Stay connected with us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and by signing up for our newsletter at israelstory.org/newsletter/. For more, head to our site or Tablet Magazine.
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| 0:00.0 | Imagine sweeping through green fields, floating five feet above ground, sun on your face as you slide by on track to your destination. |
| 0:12.0 | Not a car in the world, as you simply lean back. And before you know it, you're there. |
| 0:20.0 | This is how travel should feel, and on our trains, it does. |
| 0:25.0 | Avanti West Coast, feel good travel. |
| 0:40.0 | Every few years, once its warehouses of unclaimed lost and found items fill up, |
| 0:46.0 | Nistert Israel, the Israel Police, becomes Sotheby's for a day. |
| 0:56.0 | Back in late November, our producer Adina Karpur went to the Beddagon Police Station near Rishonetsion |
| 1:03.0 | to attend an unusual auction. |
| 1:17.0 | So Adina, what kind of items were being auctioned off there? |
| 1:21.0 | So there were really all kinds of things. You know, lots of things that you would expect for people to have lost, |
| 1:28.0 | like phones, headphones, bicycles. |
| 1:34.0 | You know, there was a strimal, a bunch of strollers, but there were also really surprising things. |
| 1:41.0 | There was an industrial oven, a refrigerator, remote controls for handling cranes and drones. |
| 1:49.0 | You know, really surprising things like that. I don't know how someone would lose that kind of stuff. |
| 1:55.0 | And who shows up to something like this? |
| 1:58.0 | So I was really surprised about the kinds of people that come, |
| 2:01.0 | because really it spans the entire spectrum, as long as you're male. |
| 2:07.0 | So there were about 150 men there. Me and the auctioneer and maybe a handful of cops were women, |
| 2:14.0 | but other than that, you had charedim, Arabs, young people, old people, rich people, poor people, |
| 2:21.0 | techies, bikers, and there was this one guy, Dan. |
| 2:26.0 | Hi, can I talk to you for a second? |
| 2:28.0 | Yeah, of course. |
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