rare identical triplets

greenfire

Tue, Oct 01 2013, 12:40 pm

http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc......html

amother

Tue, Oct 01 2013, 12:49 pm

israel has their own! all three are in the army
Orbaum triplets their dad was a writer for jerusalem post and was in a scrabble club.
they have relatives in their family who are identical twins.

yo'ma

Tue, Oct 01 2013, 12:55 pm

A former classmate of one my ds's is a triplet. I think they're identical. They look like it to me. They had more than one class for each grade.

greenfire

Tue, Oct 01 2013, 1:20 pm

http://www.jpost.com/Features/.....n-IAF

"The concept of 'one for all and all for one' can get pretty absurd," the late Jerusalem Post staffer and columnist Sam Orbaum wrote about his identical triplet daughters 14 years ago. Orbaum, who passed away in 2002 at the age of 46, went on in the column, entitled "The threeness of it all," to describe life as a father of identical triplets. Not only did he sometimes mix them up, Orbaum wrote in his well-known wry, comic style, but he was also constantly impressed by their tight bond - when for example they stood up for one another in fights in the school sandbox. The three blond 19-year-old sisters are still sticking up for one another, although this time not on the playground but in the IAF, in which they all enlisted a few months ago, making history. While all three are in khaki-colored air force uniforms, they don't serve together. Odelia, the oldest (born a minute before her two sisters), serves as a control officer in the IAF's underground command-and-control center in the Kirya in Tel Aviv; Nomi is an air traffic control officer at the IAF's Palmahim Base; and Donna is currently in training for a different IAF position near Herzliya. "Even though we are, in a sense, still together since we are all in the IAF, it was still difficult to split up to different positions and offices," said Odelia. The sisters say that they think of themselves as one person, which might not make sense - until one sees how they complete one another's sentences or give the same answers during the interview. Since elementary school the three have been together, going on to the same high school in Jerusalem's Ramot neighborhood and then to the same premilitary academy in the Jordan Valley. It was there that the triplets decided to enlist in the IDF and not do national service like most of their female classmates. "As religious girls we were confused about what to do," said Nomi. "But [we] decided to enlist into the IDF since national service, like working in an old age home, is something we can always do after our military service, but military service is right now. [It's] the only time we can do it and is what characterizes the state." Once they made their decision, all they had left was to find fulfilling jobs in the IDF. Donna said she thought about trying out for the pilot's course; Nomi thought at one point about joining the Ground Forces Command and becoming an infantry instructor. In the end, they all made their way to the air force, albeit on different bases. "We didn't all decide to joint the IAF," explained Odelia. "That is just how it worked out." Nomi, the self-declared "controlling" sister, said that becoming an air traffic controller fit in very well with her personality. "I usually make the decisions so becoming an air traffic controller was natural," she said. While the three are not currently together, they all plan on becoming officers and hope to be in the same course at the Bahad 1 Officer Training School near Mitzpe Ramon in a few months. If that doesn't work out, there's always the post-IDF trip overseas, which they have no doubt they will make together. The girls also don't doubt that their father would have supported their decision to join the army. When Sam came to Israel he tried to enlist, they said, but he was exempted on medical grounds. "He supported us in everything we did until he passed away when we were 12," Donna said. "This is the seventh year since he passed away and I think about him all the time and see his smile and know that he would have been proud of us."

greenfire

Tue, Oct 01 2013, 1:26 pm

identical triplets are born at odds of [200,000,000] two hundred million to [1] one

Marion

Tue, Oct 01 2013, 1:40 pm

There's a set here in MA; they started kitah aleph this year.

sequoia

Tue, Oct 01 2013, 3:27 pm

What sort of a name is Odelia? Is it a modern Israeli name? I like it.

FranticFrummie

Tue, Oct 01 2013, 3:29 pm

Swedish identical triplets, in a heavy metal rock band. A friend of mine knows them.

pobody's nerfect

Tue, Oct 01 2013, 5:01 pm

one of the former secular teachers in the school I teach was an identical triplet. one of the others came to visit but I wasn't there Sad

Marion

Tue, Oct 01 2013, 5:04 pm

sequoia wrote:

What sort of a name is Odelia? Is it a modern Israeli name? I like it.

I have known several Odelias...not sure what makes it "modern" or "Israeli". "Modern Israeli" are the ones that are unixex and you can't tell by looking at it whether the child is male or female. To me it's the same meaning as Odeya or Hodaya...

sequoia

Tue, Oct 01 2013, 5:28 pm

Marion wrote:

sequoia wrote:

What sort of a name is Odelia? Is it a modern Israeli name? I like it.

So it also means gratitude?

yo'ma

Tue, Oct 01 2013, 7:16 pm

pobody's nerfect wrote:

one of the former secular teachers in the school I teach was an identical triplet. one of the others came to visit but I wasn't there Sad

Well, it's not like you had to see what she looked like Wink

FranticFrummie

Tue, Oct 01 2013, 7:28 pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_triplets

The Swedish triplets appear in Lady Gaga's video "Paparazzi". (I'm not linking it because it's totally NSFW.)

oliveoil

Tue, Oct 01 2013, 8:12 pm

there was a set of identical polish triplets on AGT or BGT a few years ago. They kept talking over each other, it was ridiculous.

greenfire

Tue, Oct 01 2013, 8:32 pm

AGT ? BGT ?

oliveoil

Tue, Oct 01 2013, 8:35 pm

America's got talent, Britain's got talent

shabbatiscoming

Wed, Oct 02 2013, 3:47 am

sequoia wrote:

Marion wrote:

sequoia wrote:

What sort of a name is Odelia? Is it a modern Israeli name? I like it.

So it also means gratitude?

It means with thanks to hashem.

chanchy123

Wed, Oct 02 2013, 4:04 am

sequoia wrote:

What sort of a name is Odelia? Is it a modern Israeli name? I like it.

Pretty common among girls born in the 1977 20 1990s, less so now. It means thanks to Hashem, and is similar to the slightly less common Odeya אודיה, not to be confused with the very very common Hodaya.
It is common mostly among DL girls of a certain age, but by no means exclusively (it can be heard in both Hareidi and secular circles).

kalsee

Wed, Oct 02 2013, 4:24 am

In high school, my good friend's sister had identical triplets (boys). I used to go with her once a week to sleep over at night and take care of them (they had a nurse only for the first month or two).

the triplets were numbers 5,6,7 and the oldest was 9 at the time (I think she had another two kids since)