WATCH: Passover Rube Goldberg Machine Animates The 10 Plagues

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By Naomi Zeveloff March 29, 2017

Students at the Technion in Haifa created this inventive Rube Goldberg machine to celebrate Passover. The complicated, winding device uses a domino effect to illustrate the 10 plagues, even utilizing a wheel made of matzo.

The 2015 project was created by students of the Faculties of Mechanical Engineering and Architecture and Town Planning. Check it out:

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Naomi Zeveloff is the former Middle East correspondent of the Forward, primarily covering Israel and the Palestinian Territories.

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