JERUSALEM (CNN) -- It was supposed to be a pleasant surprise, but turned into the shock of a lifetime.
A woman scours a garbage heap in Tel Aviv for her mother's missing mattress.





A woman in Tel Aviv, Israel, gave her elderly mother a new mattress as a surprise gift, throwing out the old tattered bed her mother had slept on for decades. The gesture ended up bankrupting Annat's mother, who had stuffed her savings of nearly $1 million inside her old bed for decades, Annat told Israel Army Radio.
A massive search is under way at the city dump, where security has been beefed up to keep out treasure-seekers who have heard Annat's story in Israeli media.
Annat, who did not want to reveal the rest of her name, told Israel Army Radio that she woke up early Sunday to get a good deal on a new mattress as a surprise for her mother.
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She fell asleep that night, exhausted after lugging up the new mattress and hauling down the old one to be taken out with the trash.
When her mother realized the next day what her daughter had done, she told her that she had been using the mattress to stash away her life savings and had nearly $1 million padding the inside of the worn-out mattress.
Annat ran downstairs, but it was too late. The garbage truck had already taken away the money-stuffed mattress.
Annat alerted the two major dump sites in the Israeli city in an effort to locate the bed, but so far she has had no luck. Yitchak Burba, one of the dump site managers, told Army Radio that he and his men are working relentlessly to try to help Annat find the million-dollar mattress among the tons of garbage at the landfill.
The publicity has triggered a wave of people also trying to find the mattress and its contents for themselves. Burba has increased security around the dump to keep them out.
Annat told Army Radio that when her mother realized her queen-sized bank had been tossed, she told her to "'leave it.'"
"'The heart is crying but you know we could have been in a car accident or had a terminal disease,'" Annat said her mother told her.
Annat is also taking the situation in stride.

"It's a very, very sad story but I've been through worse," she told Army Radio. "It's a matter of proportions in life ... people need to know how to accept the good and the bad in life."

Can you say opps sorry mom

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Oh, gracious... I would be searching for it, too... with a gas mask on.

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Feel bad that most of you suckas only have Penthouse or Playboy stuffed in your mattress??

I only have mattress stuffed in my mattress... but that bad boy cost me $900, so I'd be looking for it if someone threw it away.

Ours was a pretty penny too (and you need a ladder to climb onto it). If someone threw that away, I would be looking for the person with the broken back or hernia.

Hmm i feel like taking a trip to tel aviv , anyone want to come?

Oooooo Does it have a pillow top? One of those deep supportive but soft-top mattresses that weighs a ton that just sucks the sleep right out of you as soon as you lay down? Can I come spend the night?? I'll baby sit the next day, lol.

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When I was 5 years old, I saved every penny I earned from lemonade stands and picking onion grass out of my Grandmother's lawn. I brought all to the $9.00 of it down to Rehoboth Beach, in my Rainbow Bright folding wallet. All year, I had been imagining the treasures I'd buy with my savings.

Our first night at the beach, I put my Rainbow Bright wallet in my pocket and walked down the boardwalk with my family. Two hours later, it was no longer there. I'd lost my life savings, and I cried for days over it.

There is no reason that this "elderly" woman's family should not have helped her realize the lesson that I learned at five years old. We take on a lot of responsibility for our young, but our old get lost in the shuffle.

Really, there's no money in the mattress. Mom's getting revenge for all the hell her daughter probably raised when she was growing up, lol.

I'd do that.