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Jun 8, 2010
The religious winner of 1 million shekel (video)
About a month ago I mentioned that a semi-haredi rav from Ohr Akiva had won a million shekels in a TV trivia program called "One Against a Hundred".
There was very little info available except for some of his past trivia victories, but nothing about the show itself, and I could not find a clip.
It turns out nothing was available at the time because the show had not yet aired, and everything had to remain silent until it would air. That being the case, I am surprised even a blurb that he had won the full prize got out at the time...
The other night the program finally aired, and here is the clip (the clip starts with a different contestant, but Abu Aziz comes on at about the minute 21 marker):
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As well, Maariv ran a profile of Abu Aziz and an interview with him about how he prepares for all these contests he participates in.
Interestingly, when he discusses his reading of newspapers, he, like so many others,starts reading his newspapers by first opening up to the Sports section...
It was definitely an enjoyable performance to watch, humorous and entertaining, and Abu Aziz made a kiddush hashem in his knowledge and in his composed demeanor and his ability to be entertaining at the same time.
Mazel tov and hatzlacha
There was very little info available except for some of his past trivia victories, but nothing about the show itself, and I could not find a clip.
It turns out nothing was available at the time because the show had not yet aired, and everything had to remain silent until it would air. That being the case, I am surprised even a blurb that he had won the full prize got out at the time...
The other night the program finally aired, and here is the clip (the clip starts with a different contestant, but Abu Aziz comes on at about the minute 21 marker):
.
As well, Maariv ran a profile of Abu Aziz and an interview with him about how he prepares for all these contests he participates in.
Interestingly, when he discusses his reading of newspapers, he, like so many others,starts reading his newspapers by first opening up to the Sports section...
It was definitely an enjoyable performance to watch, humorous and entertaining, and Abu Aziz made a kiddush hashem in his knowledge and in his composed demeanor and his ability to be entertaining at the same time.
Mazel tov and hatzlacha
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I'm interested in your label 'semi-haredi' which I've never heard before. Did you invent it? Does it mean 'non-quite-Haredi'?
ReplyDeleteHow about haredi-lite? or 'grey-haredi' or 'par-Haredi' or 'lo-Haredi'.... Hmmm..
I made it up for lack of a better term. I first wrote haredi, but then noticed that he himself, in both the interview and during the program, says he is not really haredi (he says he is not because he still reads newspapers). So I cut it down to semi-haredi. I probably should have rewritten it just to say "frum guy", but in my head at the time I was just dropping it down a bit.
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