The Maccabiah Games (a.k.a. the World Maccabiah Games; Hebrew: משחקי המכביה, or משחקי המכביה העולמית; sometimes referred to as the "Jewish Olympics")...

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...

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...

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 (Hebrew:...

1st Maccabiah (aka The Maccabiah and the White Horse Olympics) (Hebrew: המכביה הראשונה or Hebrew: המכביאדה) was the first edition of the Maccabiah, which...

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...

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...

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 held...

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...

Maccabiah Games in Israel, earning a gold medal with the U.S. squash team in the 2005 Maccabiah Games, and silver medals in the 1981 Maccabiah Games,...

Twenty-one countries sent 980 athletes to compete in the 1957 5th Maccabiah Games, an international Jewish athletics competition similar to the Olympics...

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...

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...

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...

chess tournament in Mainz. He won the gold medal in chess at the 2009 Maccabiah Games. In 2010, in Rijeka, Nepomniachtchi won the European Individual Championship...

Mixed Doubles titles in 1976. She won three gold medals at the 1973 Maccabiah Games in Israel. Kloss was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. She is Jewish...

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...

The Summer Olympic Games (known in French as "Jeux olympiques d'été"), also known as the Games of the Olympiad, and often referred to as the Summer Olympics...

to compete in the 18th Maccabiah Games in Israel from July 12 to 29, 2009. Lezak was given the honor of lighting the Maccabiah torch at the Opening Ceremony...

Yale University, and won a silver medal with Team USA in the 1969 Maccabiah Games in Israel. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) had...

other team delegates who were visiting Israel to participate in the Maccabiah Games. One athlete died in the collapse and three died afterwards due to...

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...

season. Schayes coached the US Maccabiah Games basketball team to an upset win to take the gold medal in the 1977 Maccabiah Games. He also coached the U.S....

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 were...

record in the 200 m breaststroke, at 2:35.94. In July 2017 at the 2017 Maccabiah Games, she won gold medals in the girl's 100 m junior freestyle, as well...

the Games. In 1985, Spitz lit the torch to open the 1985 Maccabiah Games. In 2005, he was a member of the U.S. delegation at the 2005 Maccabiah Games. He...

in 2009. She played in the 2009 Maccabiah Games in Israel and was named the Outstanding Female Athlete of the Games. Polgár remained the only woman in...

and the previously mentioned Maccabiah Games Occupational, such as the Military World Games, the World Police and Fire Games, and the Universiade Physical...

The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (French: Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions...

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...