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created: 2025-07-22
updated: 2025-07-22
title: Uri Geller
category: "Key Figures"
tags:
- person
- psychic
- entertainer
description: Uri Geller is an Israeli-British psychic, entertainer, and television personality, known for his spoon-bending and other psychokinetic abilities.
- Person
- Stargate
- Military
summary: "When Geller was ten, his parents separated, and he moved with his mother to Cyprus."
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[[Uri Geller]] is a famous [[Israel|Israeli]]-British illusionist, mentalist, and spoon bender. He was born on the winter solstice of 1946, in Tel Aviv, to Hungarian emigré parents. According to the Geller legend, at the age of four, he was visited by a strange luminous apparition, after which he began to manifest paranormal talents. Unlike [[Ingo Swann]] and [[Pat Price]], he did not have out-of-body experiences or premonitions; instead, he claimed to be able to read minds, visualize hidden objects and drawings clairvoyantly, and bend small pieces of metal.[^1]
When Geller was ten, his parents separated, and he moved with his mother to Cyprus. At seventeen, he returned to Israel, joined the paratroops, and was wounded during the Six-Day War in 1967. After recuperating, he worked as a model. Encouraged by a friend, [[Shippi Strang]], he began public performances of mind reading and metal-bending in 1969. His celebrity grew, and he performed for prestigious figures, including Prime Minister Golda Meir and General Moshe Dayan, who reportedly asked him, "Now, what can you do for Israel?"[^1]