(Thanks to Joshua) An Israeli, 19-year-old Shahar Shenhar, is the 2013 Magic: The Gathering (MtG) world champion. MtG is a trading card game, which is as popular as chess among young intellectuals. The champion in 2007 was Israel’s Uri Peleg, who has five graduate degrees.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4414618,00.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic:_The_Gathering