Thanks to Uri Gobey, who screen-snapped this picture and inquired if it was, indeed, me,
I am acquainted with Simha Jacobovici, having first met him decades ago at a meeting of the World Union of Jewish Students at which, although not a student then, I attended. It was at Kiryat Moriah I recall.
Anyway, when he was producing this 2008 episode of his "Naked Archaeologist", he was on Emeq Refaim Street in Jerusalem and was talking about belief in hard-to-believe-in Biblical themes. I worked at the Begin Center and while out getting something (either a pizza or a book), I stopped to observe.
During a break, I stepped over to introduce myself and say hello. He remembered me and asked if he could film me while asking a question. I agreed.
He went on about the Refaim, mythical creatures for all intents and purposes, and then asked me at 5:45 if I believed that Og, King of Bashan, was nine cubits tall? (See Deutoronomy 3:11).
his bedstead was a bedstead of iron;...nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it
and so, on the spur of the moment, and with a bit of cheeky wit, I answered,
or may he had a very big girlfriend?
That stumped him and almost brought out an on-camera laugh, I think.
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