Israeli woman claims to be world's oldest person
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A woman has declared herself the oldest living person after her birth certificate was uncovered, showing she is 120. Mariam Amash rises every morning at 5am, walks unaided, and attributes her longevity to a diet rich in vegetables.
(...) According to her birth certificate, issued by the Ottoman Empire authorities, she was born near her current home in the village of Jisr az-Zarka in 1888.
A devout Muslim, she has made the haj pilgrimage to Mecca five times - most recently in 1990, when she was only 102.
Amash has 10 children, 120 grandchildren, 250 great-grandchildren, and 30 great-great-grandchildren. Her newest great-granddaughter is just one week old.
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Al Jazeera's David Chater reports of the lady born in 1888, making her twice as old as the country she lives in.