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The American Football in Israel men’s national team with the Guatemalan team at the World Championships of American Flag Football in Panama. Credit: Courtesy.

Israeli men just miss making the podium at flag-football world championships in Panama

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The American Football in Israel (AFI) men’s and women’s national teams returned home this week, proudly representing their country halfway around the globe at the 2018 International Federation of American Football (IFAF) Flag Football...
Inbal Pezaro at the 2008 Paralympics in Beijing. Source: Wikpedia.

Israeli swimmers win gold at European championship

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Two Israeli swimmers won gold medals in the 2018 World Para Swimming European Championships in Dublin, Ireland, on Monday. Israel’s Culture and Sports Minister Miri Regev took to Twitter to celebrate athletes Inbal Pezaro, 31,...
Team members sign shirts at a practice session days before the World Lacrosse Championship is set to being in Israel. Credit: The Israel Project.

Teams prep for World Lacrosse Championship, to be held in Israel for first time

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Two teams participating in the World Lacrosse Championship, which kicks off on July 12, warmed up together on Tueday at the Kraft Family Stadium pitch in Jerusalem. In a match put together by The Israel Project,...
The Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow, something unthinkable during the Soviet era, is sure to be a destination for Jewish sports tourists when matches are not being held.

Jewish communities across Russia open doors to World Cup Jewish visitors

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If Rostov-on-Don Chabad-Lubavitch emissary Rabbi Chaim Danzinger has his way, thousands of Jewish soccer fans who will descend on his storied town and 10 other historic cities for the upcoming World Cup games in Russia will...
Israeli Minister of Sports and Culture Miri Regev speaks to the press at the sports ministry's offices in Tel Aviv on June 6, 2018. Photo by Yossi Zeliger/Flash90.

Israeli sports minister: Argentinian soccer match canceled over ‘terrorism’

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Israel’s Culture and Sports Minister Miri Regev, speaking out after the cancellation of a friendly soccer match in Jerusalem between Israel and the Argentine national team, said it was a result of “terror threats”...
Head of the Palestinian Football Association Jibril Rajoub speaks during a press conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Sunday, June 6, 2018. Photo by Flash90

Why a soccer hooligan is smiling

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Jibril Rajoub is many things—a convicted terrorist, a former West Bank security chief, a former confidante of the late Yasser Arafat, and now the head of both the Palestinian Football Association and the Palestinian...
Team Israel wearing their kippot during Hatikvah before the game against Great Britain on September 22, 2016. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Play ball! In Israel! With some hard-hitting American Jews

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There is a moving, somewhat entertaining scene in the recently released film “Heading Home:  The Tale of Team Israel” where Moshe Abutbul, the mayor of Bet Shemesh, invites the 10 visiting American baseball players...
Post by Beitar Jerusalem soccer team, announcing its name change to “Beitar Trump Jerusalem.” Source: screenshot

Celebrated Jerusalem soccer team now named for Trump

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Loyal Jerusalem soccer fans were greeted with news on Sunday that their beloved Beitar Jerusalem soccer club would be changing its name in honor of the American leader who was the first to recognize...

Famed Giro d’Italia bike race kicks off in Jerusalem

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In an inaugural event in Israel, the world’s best bike riders will compete in the famed Giro d’Italia cycling race in Jerusalem on May 4. This is the first time that the 101-year-old Giro d’Italia is being...

Putting pedal to the metal: In Israel, Giro d’Italia to bust out bikes big...

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The biggest biking event in the history of the Jewish state is about to arrive, placing Israel in the center of the sporting map. The Giro d’Italia is second only to the Tour de France as...