Canadian athletes gear up for 20th Maccabiah Games
Volleyball star Josh Binstock will compete in his second consecutive Maccabiah Games one year after representing Canada at the Rio Olympics. Sasha Gollish will vie for a medal in track and field, after representing Canada at the 2015 Pan American Games.
Arab (and Iranian) apartheid: where are the progressives?
Amid the many examples of anti-Israel apartheid the silence of the self-appointed guardians of human rights, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, is striking, writes Gerald Steinberg
A brief history of Israel at the Paralympics
Today, a look at Israel’s record at the Paralympic Games, some athletes to watch and the story of the man behind the Paralympics
At 80, a Munich Olympics and Holocaust survivor still competes
Shaul Ladany, a two-time Olympian, acknowledged that he was “very happy” that the International Olympic Committee finally held an official memorial for the 11 Israelis who were killed in a terrorist raid at the 1972 Munich games
Physician with Jewish roots at centre of Russia’s Olympic doping scandal
A Russian physician of Jewish descent who for decades has been illegally doping athletes is one of the central figures in the scandal that led to the partial ban on Russia in the Rio Olympics
Aly Raisman wins her third medal at Rio Olympics
American Jewish gymnast Aly Raisman won her third medal of the Rio Olympics on Tuesday — a silver in the floor exercise
Rio pays tribute to 11 Israeli victims of Olympic massacre
Under the auspices of the International Olympic Committee, Brazilian senior officials joined sports activists from Israel and elsewhere at a commemoration of the 11 Israeli victims of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre.
Three times Israeli athletes were disrespected at Rio 2016
It’s been jarring to see Arab athletes publicly stonewalling their Israeli rivals. So far, Israel’s been snubbed three times at Rio 2016
After losing, Egyptian judoka refuses to shake Israeli judoka’s hand
Talk about a gracious loser, eh?
Bronze for judo is Israel’s first Rio Olympics medal
Yarden Gerbi became the first Israeli to medal at the Rio Olympics, bringing home a bronze in the women’s 63-kg judo competition.
