Purim Spoof: Bibi Strip Searched at FPA Purim Bash

Security guards on duty at the Foreign Press Association's annual Purim party strip searched Benjamin Netanyahu at the door. "Yeah,…

By March 17, 2011

Security guards on duty at the Foreign Press Association’s annual Purim party strip searched Benjamin Netanyahu at the door.

“Yeah, it’s a little extreme, but the guards, God bless them, were just following their procedures,” said FPA chairman Joe Federman, when apprised of the incident. “I wish security for our Purim party wasn’t necessary, but that’s the situation.”

The Prime Minister, who was kept waiting for more than hour while his entire entourage was also checked, chatted amiably –if not awkwardly — with passersby. Two journalists from the Wall St. Journal and Al-Jazeera brought cheese sandwiches for the prime minister and hungry staffers.

Happy Purim to all our readers.

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Pesach Benson

Pesach Benson

A Baltimore native, Pesach was with HonestReporting from 2011 to 2020. He edited the Israel Daily News Stream and authored the e-book, Red Lines: HonestReporting’s 8 Categories of Media Bias. Before moving to Israel in 1995, he worked as a reporter for the Baltimore Jewish Times. Pesach has a B.A. in political science from the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, where he was executive editor of the campus newspaper.

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