Israel’s Smartest Girl? High School Student Poised to Break a New Record

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Israel’s smartest girl? High school student poised to break a new record

C14 News Desk, 2 minutes ago

Yael Padovitz, a 12th-grade student at the Weizmann Institute High School, is expected to break a new Israeli record and complete 66 full matriculation units. In an interview on Pitchi and Shai, she modestly shared that this is not a matter of intelligence, but of persistence and courage: "There are students in my grade who are smarter than me."

In a complex, rapid knowledge quiz conducted by the hosts, she demonstrated exceptional knowledge.

Yael Padovitz, a 12th-grade student at the Davidson Institute for Science Education of the Weizmann Institute of Science, is expected to break a new Israeli record and finish high school with no fewer than 66 matriculation units. In an interview on Pitchi and Shai today (Thursday), she spoke about the warm responses: "People say I'm the smartest in the world, that can't be measured, it takes a lot of courage."

Padovitz shared that, in her view, this is not a matter of "intelligence," but rather the secret lies in the courage it requires: "You can't just say now that I'm the smartest, there are many students in my grade who are smarter than me, it can't be measured, but it requires a lot of ambition, and a lot of courage."

"Who is Mommy's genius?"

During the program, Padovitz was asked several quick questions and demonstrated extensive knowledge in her fields of study, biology, history and mathematics. She answered quickly and confidently questions that the average person would not necessarily know how to answer, such as what Newton's third law is, which formula is used to calculate force, and what material is usually used to make electrical circuits in computers.

Padovitz said, "I taught my little sister Newton's law when she was in fourth grade."

Pitchi and Shai praised her and laughed, "We didn't know that." She also added, "My mother taught me the order of all the planets in the solar system when I was two years old."