Israeli Government Officials - Avid Readers Of "I Heart Jews"

Clearly, Israel's deputy health minister, Yakov Litzman, has been keeping up with I Heart Jews! Obviously, he read our post yesterday regarding his awesomely ridiculous decision to re-name "swine flu" as "Mexican flu". He must have really felt burned by our clever blogging, because he changed his mind today!

"Israel has no intention of giving the flu any new names. It was nothing more than a slip of the tongue," the official said.*

We here at I Heart Jews are very proud of the difference we can make with a simple post.

Litzman continued, "Thanks to the delightfully irreverent blogging over at I Heart Jews, I have realized that changing the name of "swine flu" is totally ludicrous. Also, re-naming it "Mexican flu" is pretty offensive. I sure wouldn't like someone to name a disease "Jew Flu", though I do like rhyming. A hearty todah rabah and my deepest grattude to I Heart Jews." **

(AFP via GoogleNews)


* This quote is totally real.
** This quote is totally made up.