Palestinian bus driver returns lost $10,000 to Jewish passenger

Palestine

Published: 2017-08-25 12:39

Last Updated: 2024-03-22 14:23


Bus stop in east Jerusalem.
Bus stop in east Jerusalem.

After misplaced $10,000 on a bus in Jerusalem, an ultra-Orthodox Jew was lucky enough to be reunited with his fortune. However, it is not God that he needs to thank for this favourable turn of events, but the Palestinian bus driver who found the roll and turned it in, the Times of Israel has reported.

The driver for the private company, 35-year-old Ramadan Jamjoum,found a roll of American dollars held together by a rubber band during his route between Jerusalem and the Orthodox Jewish area of Bnei Brak last Wednesday.

The next day he handed the money into the Ramat Gan police station.

“I tried to tell him but he didn’t hear me as he was on the phone, but afterwards I informed the company and submitted the money,” Jamjoum told AFP. He said the cash “did not tempt him” as “it is my duty morally and religiously, and to my God and my work, to return the money.”

The police station later published a notice in a local Bnei Brak paper reporting that a large sum of money had been found, leading to its recovery by its rightful owner. Jamjoum did not receive any reward aside from a certificate of thanks from his company.