Izhar Nevo

Who is Izhar Nevo?

Izhar Nevo is the first and only contestant who has ever won the Israeli version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, Mi rotseh lehyot milyoner?. He won the grand prize of ₪1,000,000 on August 7, 2000.

The question for the million that he answered was: "Which of the following books of The Young Sportsmen series was the first?", followed by apparently four names of books. Nevo used only at that point the 50:50 lifeline and tossed a coin to choose the right answer from the remaining two. Nevertheless, in the show video he can be heard telling his spouse that he actually knew the right answer.

The phone a friend lifeline was used in the ₪500,000 question that was about the most ancient of four British monarchs. The friend, a historian by profession, answered correctly.