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    The History of the Maccabiah, a quadrennial International Jewish multi-sport event, dates back to 1912 and the Games of the V Olympiad. At the end of...
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    The Maccabiah Games (a.k.a. the World Maccabiah Games; Hebrew: משחקי המכביה, or משחקי המכביה העולמית; sometimes referred to as the "Jewish Olympics"),...
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  • The 19th Maccabiah (Hebrew: המכביה התשע-עשרה) were held during July 18 to 30, 2013. The Games brought together 7,500 competing athletes, making it the...
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  • The 2022 Maccabiah Games (Hebrew: משחקי המכביה 2022) took place in Israel from July 14–25, 2022, and are also referred to as the 21st Maccabiah Games...
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    At the 8th Maccabiah Games from July 29 to August 7, 1969, 1,450 athletes from 27 countries competed in 22 sports in Israel. The final gold medal count...
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  • The 2017 Maccabiah Games (Hebrew: משחקי המכביה 2017), also referred to as the 20th Maccabiah Games (Hebrew: המכביה ה-20), were the 20th edition of the...
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  • The 16th Maccabiah Games (Hebrew: המכביה ה16 ישראל תשס"א), the Opening Ceremony was held in Jerusalem at Teddy Stadium, while the re-building process...
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  • The 17th Maccabiah Games (Hebrew: המכביה ה-17 ישראל תשס"ה), held in Israel, were an incarnation of the 'Jewish Olympics.' They attracted the largest attendance...
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  • The 18th Maccabiah Games (Hebrew: המכביה ה-18 ישראל תשס"ט), were held in July 2009. According to the organizing committee these were the largest games...
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  • the Maccabiah, which was held in Mandatory Palestine from March 28 to April 2, 1932. The games were in commemoration of the 1800th anniversary of the Bar...
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  • The 11th Maccabiah Games brought 3,450 athletes to Israel from 35 nations. The Opening Ceremony was held on July 7, 1981, before a crowd of 53,000 and...
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  • The 15th Maccabiah Games are remembered for being marred by a bridge collapse that killed several participants. The Maccabiah had more than 5,000 athletes...
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    in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games are considered the world's foremost sports...
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  • athletes to compete in the 1957 5th Maccabiah Games, an international Jewish athletics competition similar to the Olympics. The opening ceremony on September...
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  • At the 10th Maccabiah Games in Israel, more than 2,800 athletes from 34 countries participated in 26 different sports, including chess and bridge and for...
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  • The 2nd Maccabiah (Hebrew: המכביה השנייה), aka the Aliyah Olympics, which was held in April 1935, was the second edition of the Maccabiah Games. The Games...
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  • Jack Langer (category Basketball players at the 1969 Maccabiah Games)
    Yale University, and won a silver medal with Team USA in the 1969 Maccabiah Games in Israel. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) had not...
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    Ilana Kloss (category Competitors at the 1973 Maccabiah Games)
    the 1973 Maccabiah Games in Israel. Kloss was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. She is Jewish. Kloss is married to Billie Jean King, the US tennis...
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    Hedy Bienenfeld (category Competitors at the 1932 Maccabiah Games)
    2018. "Maccabiah Games before World War II". sport-record.de. Ron Kaplan (2015). The Jewish Olympics; The History of the Maccabiah Games "Miss Hedwig Wertheimer...
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  • The 7th Maccabiah Games in 1965 saw 1,500 athletes from 29 different countries compete in 21 sports. It was the first Maccabiah Games for Iran, Jamaica...
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  • The 12th Maccabiah Games brought over 4,000 athletes to Israel from 38 nations to compete in 28 sports. The Maccabiah Games were first held in 1932. In...
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  • Sharon Shapiro (category Competitors at the 1977 Maccabiah Games)
    gymnast. She won five gold medals at the 1977 Maccabiah Games. In 1978, she was the U.S. National Champion in the vault. She was a two-time National Collegiate...
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  • The 6th Maccabiah Games were held in Tel Aviv, Israel in 1961, with 1,100 athletes from 27 countries competing in 18 sports. The Games were officially...
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  • The 14th Maccabiah Games brought 5,100 athletes to Israel from 48 nations. Jewish athletes from Poland, Bulgaria, and Czechoslovakia participated for the...
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  • The 9th Maccabiah Games, which were held from July 9 to 19, 1973, were opened in Ramat Gan Stadium, Israel. Spain and Costa Rica made their debuts in...
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  • The 13th Maccabiah Games brought 4,500 athletes to Israel from 45 nations. Jewish athletes from Hungary participated for the first time since World War...
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    The Summer Olympic Games, also known as the Games of the Olympiad, and often referred to as the Summer Olympics, is a major international multi-sport...
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    Donna Orender (category Queens College, City University of New York alumni)
    the Maccabiah Games – Ron Kaplan The Leaderboard: Conversations on Golf and Life – Amy Alcott The Jewish Olympics: The History of the Maccabiah Games...
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  • edition of the Maccabiah Games and the first held since the independence of the State of Israel; 15 years after the previous Maccabiah. Israel won the 1950...
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    around the world and since 1932 the Maccabiah Games, an Olympic-style event for Jewish athletes, is held in the country. Despite Israel's location in the Asian...
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