Funny Israeli Commercials: Flavored Pretzel Thins and a Very Young Ben-Gurion

Beigel Beigel, an Israeli company that makes many different varieties of pretzels, is running a funny commercial set in a bakery in Poland in 1880.

The actors wear period costumes and the lighting and staging bring the shtetl world to life.  The bakers' son bursts into the bakery with a new and exciting idea -- flavored pretzels. His mother reacts with shock -- Flavor in food? It can't be. We're Polish. That's for the Moroccans.

Then his father delivers the punch line "When the little Ben-Gurion becomes Prime Minister of Israel, then we'll bake flavored pretzels." as the camera cuts to a cute little boy with wild shocks of blond hair.

The commercial plays in Yiddish, with Hebrew and English titles. Enjoy!

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