| rdfs:comment | - Chaim Jeraffi (also credited variously as Chaim Girafi, Haim Gerafi, and others) is an Israeli actor who played Chaim on Rechov Sumsum in the 1980s. He also appeared in the first set of Shalom Sesame episodes.
- Chaim Jeraffi appeared as Ali, an assistant of archaeologist Dr. Mustafa El-Razul, a colleague of fellow archaeologist Dr. Dale Conway, Sam's latest leapee, who must protect fellow colleauge Dr. Ginny Will from a curse attached to entering the ancient tomb of Pharaoh Ptah-Hotep in Egypt in the Season Four episode of Quantum Leap titled "The Curse of Ptah-Hotep".
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| abstract | - Chaim Jeraffi (also credited variously as Chaim Girafi, Haim Gerafi, and others) is an Israeli actor who played Chaim on Rechov Sumsum in the 1980s. He also appeared in the first set of Shalom Sesame episodes. Initially active in Israeli film and television, Jeraffi has appeared primarily in American projects from the 1990s onward, playing Arabs, Israelis, Turks, and other generic Middle Eastern types. Notably, he was in two episodes of Seinfeld, as the shady owner of the Jiffy Park parking lot in "The Wig Master" and the Jiffy Dump trash depository in "The Muffin Tops." Other guest stints include Murder, She Wrote, Quantum Leap, and CSI: Miami. Films include Waterworld (as a drifter) and Just Like Heaven.
- Chaim Jeraffi appeared as Ali, an assistant of archaeologist Dr. Mustafa El-Razul, a colleague of fellow archaeologist Dr. Dale Conway, Sam's latest leapee, who must protect fellow colleauge Dr. Ginny Will from a curse attached to entering the ancient tomb of Pharaoh Ptah-Hotep in Egypt in the Season Four episode of Quantum Leap titled "The Curse of Ptah-Hotep". Chaim has made guest appearances on, in addition to Quantum Leap, such TV shows as Sesame Street, Murder, She Wrote, Seinfeld, and CSI: Miami. His film appearances include such films as Waterworld (1995), Just Like Heaven (2005), and the made-for-TV movies Layover (2010), and Kristin's Christmas Past (2013).
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