In one of his more whimsical short stories, the late Israeli satirist Efraim Kishon pits two characters against one another in a game of "Jewish poker," a game "played without cards, in your head, as befits the People of the Book." The rules are simple: Whoever thinks of a higher number wins the round. In the end, one character, sure of his triumph, reports that he has thought of infinity. The other, not to be outdone, cries, "Ben-Gurion!" and takes the pot. Both players accept that there can be no higher.
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