A factory worker from a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip won a record $360,000 in the soccer pools, the first Palestinian to win the top prize. Salem Barbah, 36, a father of three, was the only person to pick correctly the 13 winning teams in last Saturday’s league games, pool officials announced. Barbah works in a plastics factory in Jaffa and earns $400 a month.
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