For more than three decades, Grape Chives has been our lottery ambassador on the small screen.
The eternal lottery presenter, the woman and the smile, who announced the "extra number" twice a week, and has made quite a few Israelis over the years happier - and richer -.
Her farewell broadcast, after the Lottery chose to replace it with new presenters (Yarden Harel, Noa Rosin and Ido Greenberg), was moving to tears, with a strangled throat and moist eyes parting grapes from her loyal viewers, having a hard time hiding the insult that is raging in her soul.
A few days after the last raffle, Anavi shares a personal interview with the "Shishvat" supplement, which will be published tomorrow (Friday), about the difficult feelings of insult and betrayal, and the jarring chord of ending the journey in the same way she thought of home.
"Before the last broadcast, they really prepared a party, set a table, representatives from the Lottery's advertising department, CEOs," she says. "I let them greet me with all the warm words, even though I felt fake and not real.
When they lie to you you know, and they just lied to me, and it terribly insulted me.
Why?
I never lied, I did my job faithfully.
Do you want to replace?
Everything is fine, do it properly. "
I want to make sure again: did you only find out about the replacement from the media?
"True, and when I came to the raffle the evening it was published I asked there if anyone had heard anything about it. Everyone said 'no' to me. After a week, I was invited to a meeting at the Lottery. The actual producers and people from the advertising department were sitting there In your eyes, you know he's lying to you. "That's not how I prayed we would finish."
The full interview with Irit Anavi will be published tomorrow (Friday) in the "Shishvat" supplement of "Israel Today"
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