We'll Be Impressed If You Can Guess What People Are Smuggling Into Israel

There's a shortage of Fruit RollUps in Israel, so people are smuggling them in. Jayar Jackson and Yasmin Khan break it down on The Watchlist. Watch LIVE on weekdays at 5pm ET.

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"Cocaine. Foreign currencies. Firearms. All contraband that customs agents are trained to catch.

But hundreds of pounds of Fruit Roll-Ups?

Welcome to the age of TikTok-influenced smuggling.

Because of a recipe that spread widely on the social media platform, Fruit Roll-Ups — the American-made fruit leather snack that has been passed out to children at baseball games and slumber parties since the 1980s — have become an obsession in Israel, where a shortage means smuggling in the snacks can be highly profitable.

But the Israeli government is cracking down. The Israeli Tax Authority exposed the scheme in a statement on social media last week, saying that inspectors and an undercover unit at Ben Gurion Airport had caught several people, including Americans, trying to bring excessive amounts of the snacks into the country."

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