Then make sure your personal documents are watertight before making aliyah. 😉
Mariam Amash filled in the routine form with anything but routine information. Amash, who recently applied for a new Israeli identity card, said she was born 120 years ago — a claim, if confirmed, that would make her the oldest person in the world. The Guinness Book of Records currently lists 114-year-old Edna Parker of Shelbyville, Indiana, as holding that title.
Sabine Haddad, a spokeswoman for Israel’s Interior Ministry, confirmed that Amash, from the Israeli Arab village of Jisr a-Zarka, is listed in the population registry as having been born in 1888. “We’re just not sure it’s correct,” Haddad said.
The listing was based on a birth certificate issued by Turkish authorities who ruled the region at the time, she said. Ministry clerks in an Israeli city near Amash’s village found out about her claim this week when she came in to replace an identity card she lost.
Interesting. My paternal great-grandmother lived to be 104. She was born in 1884, passed away in 1988.