Mariam Amash filled in the routine form with anything but routine information. Amash, who recently applied for a new Israeli identity card , said she was born 120 years ago - a claim, if confirmed, that would make her the oldest person in the world.
The Guinness Book of Records currently lists 114-year-old Edna Parker of Shelbyville, Indiana, US, as holding that title.
Sabine Haddad, a spokeswoman for Israel's Interior Ministry, confirmed that Amash, from the Israeli-Arab village of Jisr a-Zarka, is listed in the population registry as having been born in 1888.
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"We're just not sure it's correct," Haddad said.
The listing was based on a birth certificate issued by Turkish authorities who ruled the region at the time, she said. Ministry clerks in an Israeli city near Amash's village found out about her claim this week when she came in to replace an identity card she lost.
Relatives said she has 10 sons and one daughter, her eldest, now in her late 80s. She has about 120 grandchildren, 250 great-grandchildren and 20 great-great grandchildren, they said.
A granddaughter-in-law, Hamda Amash, 40, said Mariam is a "healthy, active woman. She walks each day and makes sure she drinks at least one glass of olive oil." She was a pampered second wife who married relatively late, explaining the ages of her children, Hamda Amash said. "Her house is always full of people," she said. "People like to come to her house. She talks to us about the old days. She knows the history since the Turkish times." Turkish control over the Holy Land ended with World War I.
A Guinness spokeswoman in London said she was not familiar with Amash's contention , but said multiple documents would need to be produced to back up a birth certificate.(STAFF WRITER WITH AP)
瑪莉安．艾瑪敘填寫日常表格時，留下的個人資料卻很不平凡。最近在申請以色列身分証的艾瑪敘自稱，她出生於一百二十年前，這項說法若經證實，她就是全世界最老的人瑞了。
目前《金氏世界紀錄》中的人瑞保持人是一百一十四歲的愛德娜．帕可，來自美國印第安那州的謝比維爾市。
以色列內政部女發言人薩賓．哈達德證實，來自阿拉伯村吉瑟阿薩卡的艾瑪敘，在人口名冊中登記一八八八年出生。
哈達德說：「我們並不確定這是正確無誤。」
她說，這份名冊是依照土耳其發布的出生證明整理而成，艾瑪敘的村莊當時隸屬土耳其管轄；艾瑪敘本週到附近一個以色列大城更換遺失身分証時，一個公務員發現她的年齡。
艾瑪敘的親戚說她有十個兒子和一個女兒，最大的女兒現在已經快九十歲了；她約有一百二十個孫子、兩百五十個曾孫和二十個玄孫。
她一個四十歲的曾媳婦漢妲．艾瑪敘表示，瑪莉安是一個「健康又活潑的女人，每天都散步，且至少喝一杯橄欖油」。漢妲．艾瑪敘說，她是一個受寵的二老婆，因為晚婚，孩子年紀才相對較小。「她家裡總是有許多人，」她說：「人們喜歡到她家，她會跟我們說以前的故事，那些土耳其統治時期的歷史。」土耳其在一次世界大戰後結束對以色列「聖地」的統治。
《金氏世界紀錄》在倫敦的女發言人說，她並不清楚艾瑪敘的說法是否真實，但表示出生證明需要提出多種資料來佐証。（美聯社／翻譯：袁星塵）
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