Thanks all....the odd/interesting part is that he wasn't conversational at all in Hebrew.....
I also remember a bunch of years back, Howard Stern had these two guys on who claimed they had a bit of JFK's flesh (from his assassination day) preserved in a bottle. I remember thinking that one sounded like my uncle, and sure enough it was him; they had pranked Stern....
EDIT: found the video clip for anyone that cares to watch all or part of it, and also found out as a result that Howard Stern WAS in on it from the beginning......I had actually never heard the whole story; knew it was a prank obviously, but never knew it was arranged with Stern ahead of time.