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JERUSALEM WOMAN MICROWAVES RENT MONEYI haven't seen a story like this since early in the pandemic. Afraid of COVID, a woman in Jerusalem destroyed banknotes in a microwave. -Editor 
An elderly woman has microwaved over NIS 10,000 in rent money in an attempt to disinfect them from COVID-19, it emerged Thursday. The 74-year-old Jerusalem resident said that she has been doing so as to avoid coronavirus. "This week I collected all the banknotes in the amount of thousands of shekels," she wrote to the Bank of Israel. "Fearing coronavirus, I touched banknotes with gloves and in my naivety I put them in a plastic bowl with bleach and heated them in the microwave to disinfect them. I left the kitchen and immediately came back smelling something burnt and the money burned. The case was transferred to the Bank of Israel's Currency Department for investigation, and that the appellant was reimbursed the full sum.
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