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+created: 2026-05-15
+updated: 2026-05-17
+title: Shimshon Shtrang
 aliases:
-- Shimshon Shtrang
+  - Shimshon Shtrang
   - Shipi Shtrang
   - Shipi
-category: "Key Figures"
+category: "Psychics & Remote Viewers"
 tags:
   - Person
-  - Stargate
-  - CIA
-  - RemoteViewer
+  - PSI
+  - UriGeller
   - SRI
-summary: "Shimshon 'Shipi' Shtrang is best known as the long-time friend and assistant of the Israeli psychic Uri Geller."
+  - CIA
+  - 1970s
+summary: "Shimshon 'Shipi' Shtrang is Uri Geller's long-time friend, assistant, and brother-in-law who accompanied Geller to Stanford Research Institute for CIA-funded testing in the early 1970s, where the CIA excluded him from experiments after magician James Randi raised questions about potential collusion."
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-# Shimshon "Shipi" Shtrang
-
 Shimshon "Shipi" Shtrang is best known as the long-time friend and assistant of the [[Israel|Israeli]] psychic [[Uri Geller]]. Their association began when Shtrang was a thirteen-year-old boy at a government-run summer camp, where Geller, recovering from [[Six-Day War]] injuries, performed [[Telepathy|telepathy]] demonstrations[^1].
 
 Shtrang was mesmerized by Geller's abilities and asked if he had any other tricks. Geller insisted they were real and showed Shipi how he could bend a metal spoon by concentrating and saying, "Bend, bend, bend." This early exposure led to Geller's first paid appearance at Shipi's middle school, marking the beginning of Geller's public career[^1].