Yeshiva student wins British lottery

A yeshiva student from the Stamford Hill neighborhood in London has won £37.4 million ($58.7 million or NIS 223.97 million) on the Euromillions lottery, Yedioth Ahronoth reported on Wednesday.

The winner is Pinhas Yosef Freedman, a 23-year-old Satmar Hassid, who intends to share the money with his wife. According to the article, Freedman intends to continue his current lifestyle and become a rabbi, like his father and father-in-law.

Freedman told the BBC that he intends to give one tenth of his winnings to charity and his wife, who asked to remain anonymous, said that they also intend to make their family and friends millionaires.

“I was listening to the radio and the lottery numbers came on,” Freedman said. “I didn’t think I would win anything but then when I took my ticket out I watched in shock as the numbers I had chosen came out one after the other.”

BBC called it the largest amount won by a Jew in Britain.

The Euromillions draw is pan-European lottery and the first prize is usually tens of millions of pounds.