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- "Israel-US dialogue is necessary about Iran’s nuclear program, since a good agreement with Iran is a clear Israeli interest. But Israel must be prepared with a military option against Iran, as a last resort"
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Tag Archives: Olympics
Israel’s Paris Olympic team: “We’re not coming to the Olympic Games to say, ‘OK, we are in the Olympics now. We’re coming to make history and win all the games. Our target is go higher and higher.”
LOS ANGELES TIMES Amid calls for an Olympic ban, Israeli athletes are determined to succeed in Paris Kevin Baxter July 16, 2024 Israel is sending 88 athletes to Paris this month, the second-largest Olympic team in the country’s history. And … Continue reading
Munich 1972: “With hand grenades and bullets the terrorists butchered the remaining nine athletes in the helicopters that brought them there, as well as a German policeman”
GATESTONE ‘There We Will Strike Them’: The Munich Massacre and Its Aftermath by Richard Kemp September 4, 2022 Fifty years ago this week, 5th and 6th September 1972, the world watched in horror as Jews were again brutally murdered on … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged Munich, Olympics, Palestinians, terror
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“The families have threatened to boycott next month’s ceremony commemorating 50 years since the 1972 terror attack in which 11 Israeli Olympic athletes were murdered”
TIMES OF ISRAEL German president mulling Israel visit amid Munich 50th anniversary boycott Ash Obel August 18, 2022 German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier is considering flying to Israel in a bid to convince the families of the Munich massacre victims to … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged 1972 Summer Olympics, Frank Walter-Steinmeier, Germany, Olympics
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Artem Dolgopyat won Israel a Gold Medal, and in the process rekindled a long-simmering Israeli debate about what it means to be a Jew
DANIEL GORDIS SUBSTACK Might a gold medal not be his only legacy? August 9, 2021 Lev Paschov certainly never imagined that he would be buried twice. An Israeli soldier who had immigrated to Israel from the former Soviet Union through … Continue reading
24-year-old Artem Dolgopyat: “The artistic gymnast who soared to the second gold in Israeli Olympic history keeps his feet firmly on the ground amid national euphoria”
TIMES OF ISRAEL Israel’s modest gold medalist: Artem Dolgopyat proves a disarming Olympic hero by David Horovitz August 1, 2021 Artem Dolgopyat, Israel’s first gold winner of the Tokyo Olympics, and only its second gold medal winner ever, must be … Continue reading
“The IOC has never before heeded the call to remember slain athletes, at times suggesting that honoring the Israeli athletes could be divisive”
JTA For first time, Olympics opening ceremony honors Israeli athletes murdered in Munich July 23, 2021 For the first time ever, the Olympic Games held a moment of silence during the opening ceremony for the 11 Israeli athletes murdered during … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged 1972 Summer Olympics, Olympics, Summer Olympics
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Israel to play baseball in 2020 Olympics “where it will face powerhouse teams such as the United States, Japan, and the Dominican Republic”
NBC SPORTS Israel is first nation to qualify for 2020 Olympic baseball tournament by Olympic Talk September 22, 2019 Israel’s baseball team, which captivated at the 2017 World Baseball Classic, is headed to its first Olympics next summer. Israel won a … Continue reading
Munich Olympic Memorial: “Before, during, and after the attack, Germany displayed a systemic pattern of neglect, still unacknowledged by its government”
TABLET MAG Munich’s New Memorial to the Slain Israeli Athletes is Meaningless and Offensive by Liel Leibovitz September 6, 2017 Israeli president Reuven Rivlin and German president Frank-Walter Steinmeier unveiled a memorial in Munich today commemorating the 11 Israeli athletes … Continue reading
“Israeli president, families of 11 Israeli athletes murdered by Arab terrorists in 1972, meet following dedication of Munich memorial to victims” [VIDEO]
ARUTZ SHEVA President Rivlin meets families of Munich Massacre victims by Staff September 6, 2017 After the main memorial ceremony held in for the 11 Israeli athletes murdered at the 1972 Munich Olympics, and after the inauguration of the memorial … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish
Tagged 1972 Summer Olympics, Munich, Olympics, President Reuven Rivlin
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“Largely forgotten, at least 30 Jewish Olympians were murdered in the Holocaust, often displaying uncommon heroism in the face of death”
TIMES OF ISRAEL The Jewish Olympians among Hitler’s victims by Matt Lebovic August 21, 2016 A century before Aly Raisman and Or Sasson, the Jewish people had gymnast Judikje “Jud” Simons from the Netherlands, and boxer Victor “Young” Perez of … Continue reading
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