Maccabiah

Maccabiah launches five-day sports festival at Expo Tel Aviv

Organized by Maccabi World Union, the festival is designed to bring Israelis closer to the Maccabiah experience while providing a family-friendly destination during the school break.

|ByJERUSALEM POST SPORTS STAFF
EXPO TEL AVIV will be the venue for the 'Maccabiah City' sports festival ahead of this summer's Games, which open on July 1. (Maccabiah/Courtesy)
MONTANA TUCKER will perform and help lead the athletes’ parade during July’s Maccabiah Opening Ceremony at Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem.

Montana Tucker, Netta Barzilai to headline Maccabiah Games opening

The ceremony will combine music, sports, and Jewish unity, featuring thousands of athletes from dozens of countries marching into Teddy Stadium.

|ByJERUSALEM POST SPORTS STAFF
No. 38: Larry Frank playing for Vanderbilt University.

The Maccabiah Games’ crucial role in shaping Zionism and aliyah

Since the quota for olim had been cut by the British, the Maccabiah offered a great opportunity to come but not leave.

|ByDAVID GEFFEN
Maccabi Tel Aviv players celebrating.

Maccabi Tel Aviv rallies, downs Jerusalem in State Cup semis

With a 94-85 win, Maccabi Tel Aviv advanced to the State Cup final, which will take place on Thursday night. The yellow-and-blue will meet the winner of the Bnei Herzliya and Hapoel HaEmek clash.

|ByJOSHUA HALICKMAN

Spending the holidays at Kfar Maccabiah

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021ByRINA GALMOR
KFAR MACCABIAH HOTEL has swimming pools, a fitness club, a spa and tennis courts.

Pres. Herzog, Jewish athletes celebrate 100 years of Maccabi World Union

The event featured the ceremonial passing of the Maccabiah torch, ahead of the return of the Jewish Olympics in July 2022, following a hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
(L-R) Olympic medalists Avishag Samberg, Linoy Ashram and Yael Arad.

Grapevine August 31, 2021: Biased Behavior

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

AUGUST 31, 2021ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
PRESIDENT ISAAC HERZOG at the Maccabi World Union centenary celebration, with a background photograph in which his father is pictured in the group photo taken at the 12th Maccabiah Games.

I knew Hanukkah celebrated defeating the Greeks. Then I moved to Athens

My experiences here so far, while smaller and more limited due to coronavirus restrictions, have provided me with a remarkable new understanding of the history of that period.

DECEMBER 13, 2020ByRABBI ELIRAN SHABO
A MAN ready for battle, possibly a Maccabee, holding a shield and spear.

Rabbi Jellinek’s Hanukkah problem

Not even a million Maccabees, according to Jellinek, could bring the Messiah!

DECEMBER 9, 2020ByELI KAVON
THE HANUKKIAH at the Western Wall is lit on the fifth night of Hanukkah in 2009.

Kfar Maccabiah Hotel opens Israel’s largest extreme-sports complex

The complex is a significant milestone in making the Kfar Maccabiah Club a leader in Israel in professional and popular sports, Kfar Maccabiah CEO Dror Morad said.

JULY 1, 2020ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
SWITCH ACTIVE OWNER Barak Tzur (left), Dror Morad, CEO of Kfar Maccabiah Hotel, and Olympic bronze-medal judoka Arik Ze’evi try out the new complex.

21st Maccabiah postponed a year for Olympics to 2022

Hoping to attract record number of competitors to Israel, Maccabi World Union doesn't want to conflict with delayed Tokyo Games

APRIL 2, 2020ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
DELEGATIONS FROM 85 countries gather at Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem for the opening ceremony of the 2017 Maccabiah Games

Jewish athletes competing in Hungary honor 1st Jewish Olympic champion

Alfred Hajo, who died in 1955, was both the first Jewish Olympic champion and the first Hungarian one.

JULY 30, 2019ByCNAAN LIPHSHIZ
DETAILS ON a Jewish grave in Poland

Tel Aviv welcomes world-class squash event

The British installed squash courts at their army bases. When the State of Israel was declared, they became part of the air force and the pilots became the Jewish state's first squash players.

MAY 30, 2019ByJOSH HALICKMAN
A pair of competitors take part in the professional squash tournament on Wednesday night in the outdoor glass court built in the center of Tel Aviv

Maccabi World Union Congress opens in Israel

Around 350 members of the organization arrived in Israel from North and South America, Europe, the former Soviet Union, Australia and South Africa.

MAY 14, 2019ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
2019 Maccabi World Union Congress