a high school student from Rehovot, won a gold medal at the International Computer Olympiad in Uzbekistan, but was not allowed to compete under the Israeli flag. When Yotam received his medal and stood on the podium, he took out an Israeli flag from his pocket and challenged the antisemitism. Although the medal was taken away from him for his courage, he has no regrets. "The law that prevents me from raising the flag is based solely on politics, and I thought there was no place for that in a scientific competition," he said. The organizers demanded that he return the medal. Yotam said no. The organizers took away his certificate and deleted his ranking from the website. Please help make the world know the name of Yotam Budnik and that he is not just a world computer genius, but also a man of courage and pride of the Jewish people"
