Woman who found MAG's phone demands promised prize money
Israeli citizen Noa Itiel found the MAG’s lost phone but now faces a legal battle after public reward-offerers refuse to pay the NIS 250,000 they promised.
Noa Itiel, the honest Israeli citizen who located the lost phone of former Military Advocate General Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi three weeks ago, is now fighting in court for the hundreds of thousands of shekels in reward money that were publicly promised to whoever found the sensitive device. Itiel was walking on Tzuk Beach in Tel Aviv, the exact area where the IDF and police had been desperately searching, when she spotted the phone underwater. She immediately called the police and handed it over. Only later was it confirmed to be the MAG’s phone containing classified material.
Israel Hayom reported that during the frantic search, several prominent individuals took to the media and announced large cash rewards: