Feb. 7 (UPI) —<\/span> A man who won NIS 80,000 ($25 million) in Israel’s largest jackpot over the weekend in his first time playing said he felt a “light'” from the winning numbers.<\/p>\n “I saw commercials about the high prize and decided, for the first time in my life, to fill out a lottery ticket,” he told The Times of Israel. “The moment I saw the winning numbers I knew that they looked familiar. I felt a kind of ‘light’ that I can’t explain.”\n<\/p>\n<\/article>\n The winner is a man in his 30s, a resident of the central region, married and the father of three children, and he is a partner in aesthetics business, Channel 13 News in Israel reported.<\/p>\n He woke his wife up to tell her the news, according to both media outlets, and they stayed up talking until the early morning.<\/p>\n “I whispered in my wife’s ear, telling her I think we’ve won the lottery,” he said. “She didn’t really understand at first. … Despite the late hour, I immediately called my close family to tell them the news. I couldn’t sleep. The adrenalin didn’t allow me to. My wife and I were sitting in the living room and talking until 6 a.m.”\n<\/p>\n During their chat, they decided to prioritize gifts to family members, Channel 13 reported.<\/p>\n Then, he went to work as usual, before he went to claim the prize on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n “We don’t lack for anything,” he told Channel 13. “My career provides for my family, and we’re content with our lifestyle. But there’s always room for improvement, and one thing is sure — we will secure the future of our children and our families.”<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A man in his 30s from central Israel won the country’s largest lottery jackpot on Saturday. File Photo by Korwin2009\/Wikimedia Commons Feb. 7 (UPI) — A man who won NIS 80,000 ($25 million) in Israel’s largest jackpot over the weekend in his first time playing said he felt a “light’” from the winning numbers. “I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":980650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-980649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=980649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n<\/div>\nA man in his 30s from central Israel won the country’s largest lottery jackpot on Saturday. File Photo by Korwin2009\/Wikimedia Commons<\/div>\n\n