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The source of the misinformation? A misinterpretation of an article in the British tabloid The Express, which actually said the asteroid at its closest point would be about 2.8 million miles from the Earth. To put the number in perspective, that’s more than 100 times the circumference of the Earth — considerably farther from Israel than, say, Gaza or Iran.
So go ahead, feel free to worry about climate change, terrorism, Middle East upheaval, a potentially nuclear Iran or myriad other legit problems and threats ending the world as we know it. But chill knowing that an asteroid slamming into the Earth isn’t one of them.
”— Israeli press talking out of its asteroid? | Jewish Telegraphic Agency