The Maccabiah Games (Hebrew: משחקי המכביה, or משחקי המכביה העולמית; sometimes referred to as the "Jewish Olympics") is an international multi-sport event...
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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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“2023” Maccabiah Games (Hebrew: משחקי המכביה 2022) took place in Israel from July 14–25, 2022, and are also referred to as the 22nd Maccabiah Games (Hebrew:...
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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...
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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 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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Brian L. Roberts (category Maccabiah Games gold medalists for the United States)
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,...
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1st Maccabiah (aka The Maccabiah and the White Horse Olympics) (Hebrew: המכביה הראשונה or Hebrew: המכביאדה) was the first edition of the Maccabiah, which...
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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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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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Ilana Kloss (category Competitors at the 1973 Maccabiah Games)
the mixed doubles in the 1973 Maccabiah Games. She also won a silver medal in mixed doubles in the 1977 Maccabiah Games, losing to Peter Rennert and Stacy...
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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 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 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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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...
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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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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...
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Twenty-one countries sent 980 athletes to compete in the 1957 5th Maccabiah Games, an international Jewish athletics competition similar to the Olympics...
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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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smaller regional winter games to present day. After the 1st Winter Maccabiah which took place in 1933, a second Winter Maccabiah was organized for 1936...
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The Paralympic Games or Paralympics, also known as the Games of the Paralympiad, is a periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes...
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Noah Pink (category Competitors at the 2001 Maccabiah Games)
Film Festival. He also competed for Canada in swimming at the 2001 Maccabiah Games in Israel. Pink was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He attended...
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Sport in Israel (section Maccabiah Games)
international center for Jewish sport around the world and since 1932 the Maccabiah Games, an Olympic-style event for Jewish athletes, is held in the country...
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Dolph Schayes (section Maccabiah Games coach)
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....
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Mark Spitz (category Competitors at the 1965 Maccabiah Games)
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...
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The Summer Olympic Games, also known as the Summer Olympics or the Games of the Olympiad, is a major international multi-sport event normally held once...
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Judit Polgár (category Maccabiah Games chess players)
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...
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Brad Gilbert (category Maccabiah Games gold medalists for the United States)
1988 Olympics, and both a gold medal and a silver medal at the 1981 Maccabiah Games. Since retiring from the professional tour, he has coached several...
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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...
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