Additional number: Behind the scenes of the lottery Israel today

On Tuesday of this week one of the most embarrassing moments in my work occurred.

It was 19:19, I locked the door, turned off the TV and turned to the grape municipality for a response.

The reason: looking for new lottery facilitators, which it has been submitting for more than 30 years.

The reason for the concern: Anavi does not know that heirs are looking for her, and she first discovered this from me.

The gut feeling became a reality, and the stuttering and unpleasant conversation lasted only one minute.

She did not understand where I had fallen on her, and I just wanted to bury myself.

Anavi has been serving the lottery since the days of the experimental Channel 2, moved with it to the rest of the Broadcasting Authority and returned to the commercial channels.

Always energetic and smiling, as if she was born for exactly this role, and over the years has accumulated a sum that is itself a not bad win.

Grape is also probably the most recognizable face of the lottery.

The one who walks down the street and has to smile politely and hold fingers to anyone who just prays that the numbers he has chosen will fall.

Servers switched to her side, but she stayed true to the balls swirling in the lottery machine.

The next morning, the networks were filled with discussions on the subject, and Didi Harari also shouted on the radio: "What is urgent to replace it? Do you want to take it from the lottery for me? Irit Anavi is the additional number."

But it turns out that in recent weeks the search for her heirs, and also of the intermittent presenter, Yoav Zucker, has begun behind her back.

In complete discretion, auditions were held for this not-very-hard and lucrative work, with one by one some of the celebrities who coveted it and are now waiting for the phone.

The final results will be announced soon, and the ambition is to select a rotating group of facilitators.

The idea of ​​parting with grapes makes sense, even being asked.

One should not suspect age here, but in the way of the world of television, which needs to renew and adapt itself to the period, certainly when it comes to a transmitter whose ultimate goal is to promote sales and increase revenue.

Everything is true, and it is also allowed to say goodbye, but there is also a way - and the way Anavi discovered about the auditions is embarrassing, shameful and disrespectful.

Not for someone who works even just a month, certainly not for someone who works for more than 30 years.

But perhaps this is actually the great fortune of Anavi, because through this surprise and the reactions it provoked, the lottery realized the mistake and will leave it and add more to it.

Instead, I was sending a lottery this week.

Erans@israelhayom.co.il