The first surrogate twins in Israel were discovered to be mathematical talents

Participants in the first summer camp of its kind held at the Technion

In the photo: Shai (left) and Gilad Bar

For 14 years Gilad and Shai Bar's parents made great efforts to get a brother for their son Gitai. Finally they helped an American surrogate mother named Gina. The result was wonderful - adorable twins, Gilad and Shay, were born.
Today, 17 years later, the years are participating in the first youth summer camp of its kind in Israel organized by the Faculty of Mathematics at the Technion. The years were revealed as mathematical talents and they are engaged for two weeks in solving problems in number theory (Tomba 17/19), together with another 24 participants (including four girls).
Gina, the surrogate mother, is also proud of Gilad and Shei. She visited them in Israel when they were three years old, and since then she has kept in close contact with them and their family, through letters and phone calls. For years studying at the "Shitim" school in the Sapir center in Arava, excelling in all subjects, but especially in the scientific subjects. They do not give up their hobbies - swimming, football, basketball, ping pong and computers. They also read a lot, especially beautiful literature and science books in English.
"We are similar in everything", they say. "Our grades are also the same."
And there is no difference between you?
"Gilad likes hummus and tahini, but I don't," Shay laughs.
At the summer camp in number theory at the Technion, they arouse a lot of interest, but they are not unusual among the talented young people who participate in it. Like Or Fisher, whose mother Anat is a professor in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Technion, his father Dr. Mani, is a scientist at HP and his grandmother Dr. Rodika was also a scientist. He already reached the first grade with knowledge of multiplication and fractions ("Grandma taught me"). He studies at the Open University, and today, at the age of 16, he already has a third of an academic degree in mathematics.
Eyal Baruch's father, Moshe Baruch, is also a professor at the Technion, in the Faculty of Mathematics and a member of the organizing committee of the summer camp, headed by Professor Jack Sohn. His grandfather, Menachem Baruch, is a retired professor at the Faculty of Aeronautics and Space Engineering.
Young people from abroad also came to the summer camp, such as Yonatan Elsour who came from California and Adele Chandrashikar, who is studying in Beni Hammar in the USA.
Dr. Yossi Cohen, initiator and center of the camp, is delighted with the group of young geniuses. "They do exercises in small groups, compete with each other but also help each other, do not give up the swimming pool, trips, movies and navigation that the camp provides them. They are competing for a prize of 5000 dollars, on behalf of the "Ort World" organization, which will be given at the end of the camp to the boy or girl who solved a large number of exercises in the highest quality way, but also helped their friends in finding solutions. We are happy to see that apart from the studies, a real social celebration has been created here and we hope to see them at the Technion in the coming years", says Dr. Cohen.