Community builds world-record Lego tower to honor 8-year-old

TEL AVIV (KXAN) — A record-breaking tower of toy bricks in Israel is honoring a young boy who died of cancer.
Ben Sayag loved playing with Legos — so his teachers decided to remember him by building a large tower out of the bricks to try to break a Guinness World Record. It’s 118 feet tall — the equivalent of a 12 story building — and thousands of community members in Tel Aviv used about half a million Legos to create it.
“It’s a community effort to buil