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 FOR THE first time since 1976, Israel will be sending a soccer team to the Olympics after the blue-and-white clinched their spot in the tournament with their last-4 performance at the ongoing Under-20 European Championship.

What should Israel do if opponents boycott its participation at the Olympic games?

 Israel's Yuval Shalom Freilich salutes during his bout against Ivan Trevejo from France in the table of 64 of the men's épée event in the 2013 World Fencing Championships 2013 at Syma Hall in Budapest, 8 August 2013.

Israeli fencer Yuval Freilich wins gold medal in Qatar, home to Hamas’s leadership

By Jacob Gurvis/JTA
 Hockey stick and puck on ice

Israel to sue int'l hockey federation over ousting of Israeli team from ch'ship

 FROM LEFT: Dr. Alexis Mitelpunkt, director of the Daycare Rehabilitation Department at Ichilov, Delta Israel CEO Anat Bogner, and judoka Peter Paltchik.

Grapevine, December 31, 2023: Culinary ecumenism and economic recovery

HANNA MINENKO and Yaakov Toumarkin lead the Israeli delegation of athletes at the opening of the Tokyo Olympics, in which the country captured four medals.

Will Israel be banned from the Paris 2024 Olympics?

By Walla!
 Tokyo 2020 Olympics - Gymnastics - Artistic - Men's Floor Exercise - Final - Ariake Gymnastics Centre, Tokyo, Japan - August 1, 2021.

Olympics: Rise in antisemitism is security challenge for Israeli athletes, Israel committee says

By REUTERS

French Olympian compares Netanyahu to Hitler, accuses Israel of genocide

By WALLA! SPORTS , JERUSALEM POST STAFF
 Sagi Muki.

25 ViZionaries: Sagi Muki - No. 22

Olympic champion accused of faking terminal cancer to evade debt

By Walla!
 The International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI), which marked the end of the International Science Olympiad season, saw Israel's team achieve impressive results, with an unprecedented and highest achievement since 1996 - the year Israel began participating in the Olympiad.  At this year's Internati

Outstanding Achievement for Israel's Informatics Team

 Yael Arad speaks during a press conference at the Ministry of Finance offices in Jerusalem, February 23, 2022.

Israeli chosen to join the International Olympic Committee

By WALLA!/Yaniv Tuchman
 Israel National Basketball Team faces off against Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Israel falls to Bosnia, eliminated from Olympic qualifying

ISRAEL’S ROMAN SORKIN has played a key role in both blue-and-white wins – over North Macedonia and the Czechs – at the Olympic Pre-Qualifying Tournament.

Israel basketball moves in on Olympic pre-qualification

By JOSHUA HALICKMAN
 AFTER MANY years of sitting on the bench for the National Team, Netanel Artzi will get more playing time for Israel in the Olympic Pre-Qualifying Tournament this weekend.

Forward Artzi, others to prove tenacity of Israel basketball

By JOSHUA HALICKMAN
 ISRAEL COACH Ariel Beit Halachmi (left) has his work cut out for him as the National Team will play in the Olympic Pre-Qualifying Tournament this weekend minus a number of injured players, including captain Tomer Ginat (right).

National Team heads to Estonia for Olympic Pre-Qualifying tourney

By JOSHUA HALICKMAN
Tokyo 2020 Olympics - Gymnastics - Artistic - Women's Team - Final - Ariake Gymnastics Centre, Tokyo, Japan - July 27, 2021. Simone Biles of the United States during the Women's Team Final

US Olympic gymnast Simone Biles makes comeback to Israeli Eurovision song

 RUSSIAN OPPOSITION leader Alexei Navalny is seen via a video link from a corrective penal colony during a court hearing to consider an appeal against his prison sentence, in Moscow, last year.

How the West betrayed the Russian people - opinion

By ZAMIR ISAYEV
  YAM MADAR is expected to be a leader for the National Team as it prepares for the Olympic Pre-Qualifying tournament with a pair of exhibition games this weekend.

Israel's National Basketball team begins their journey to the Olympics

By JOSHUA HALICKMAN