World-class tennis coming back to Israel after 26 years
The Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) has announced its new tournament in the ATP 250 category: The Tel Aviv Watergen Open 2022, featuring the world’s top-20 ranked male pro players.
More than 26 years after Israel...
World Games: Activist waves Palestinian flag next to Israelis during Opening Ceremony
As Israel’s delegation marched into the 2022 World Games opening ceremony on July 7 in Birmingham, Ala., there was an unexpected intrusion as an activist who was a volunteer for the games was able to get...
Algerian judoka gets 10-year ban for refusing to compete against Israeli in Tokyo
The International Judo Federation (IJF) has banned Algerian judoka Fethi Nourine and his coach, Ammar Benkhalaf, from participating in activities or competitions for 10 years after the athlete withdrew from the 2020 Tokyo Olympic...
Jacob Steinmetz becomes first Orthodox Jew drafted into MLB to play for Arizona
History was made in Major League Baseball on Monday as 17-year-old Jacob Steinmetz, an Orthodox Jewish boy from Woodmere, N.Y., in Nassau County on Long Island, was drafted by the Arizona Diamondbacks in the...
Tel Aviv to host world’s first ‘love race’
Tel Aviv is set to host the world’s first “race for love.”
The starter gun will go off for the inaugural Hoodies Singles Run on Sept. 22, 2022. An estimated 15,000-20,000 people are expected to...
Novak Djokovic wins Tel Aviv tournament for 89th title
Novak Djokovic won his third trophy of 2022 and the 89th of his career at the Aviv Watergen Open on Sunday, defeating Marin Cilic in straight sets.
Djokovic, 35, won 6-3, 6-4 to add the Israeli...
Why a soccer hooligan is smiling
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...
This year’s Maccabiah Games are going live …
Broadcasting the Summer Olympic Games is a massive operation, with more than 7,000 personnel covering 28 sports utilizing 1,000-plus cameras, taking the games global.
For the first time, the so-called Jewish Olympics will be broadcast around the...
Olympics swimmer Dara Torres inducted into Jewish-American Hall of Fame
The Jewish-American Hall of Fame has announced its 51st inductee, former Olympic swimmer Dara Torres.
Torres competed in five Olympic Games, winning 12 medals and overtaking American swimmer Mark Spitz, who’s also Jewish, with 11...
Israeli equestrian chooses Yom Kippur observance over world championships
An Israeli equestrian has decided to withdraw from an International Equestrian Federation event that serves as a qualifier for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, due to its conflict with Yom Kippur on Sept....