For the first time since the 1980s, a secular student won Israel's famed International Bible Contest (Chidon ha-Tanakh in Hebrew). The competition's final rounds, held in Jerusalem on Yom Ha'atzmaut, are an annual televised event.
This year's champ, Sagiv Lugassi, is a ninth-grader at a science and technology high school in Maalot.
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