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  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
 TRAINING AT the Olympic Fencing Center, Acre.

Jewish fencer Eli Dershwitz becomes first US man to win sabre World Championship

By Jacob Gurvis/JTA
 DENI AVDIJA (left) talks with Israel head coach Ariel Beit Halachmi this week during the opening practice for the National Team at Tel Aviv’s Drive-In Arena.

Israel’s senior hoopsters gear up for games

By JOSHUA HALICKMAN
 ANAN KHALAILI (left) is the latest sporting hero for Israel. The 18-year-old Sakhnin native scored a dramatic stoppage-time goal to send the blue-and-white to a 1-0 victory over Uzbekistan in the last-16 of the FIFA Under-20 World Cup in Argentina

Israel’s soccer team is headed to the Olympics for the first time since 1976

By GABE FRIEDMAN/JTA
 Israel forward Hisham Layous (20) vs England in Under-21 Euro semifinal

Israel Under-21 team ends dream run, beat by England

By JOSHUA HALICKMAN
 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.

Israel clinches spot in 2024 Olympics soccer tournament

By JOSHUA HALICKMAN
 Israeli Special Olympics world champion Ron Bek

Israel returns with 25 medals from Special Olympics

By JERUSALEM POST SPORTS STAFF
 Israeli swimmer Mir Segel took first place at the 2023 Special Olympics world summer games in Berlin

At Special Olympics Berlin, Israeli swimmer brings home gold

 A view shows the Pulse building, the headquarters of the Paris 2024 Olympics organizing committee, as a police search is currently underway, in Saint-Denis near Paris, France, June 20, 2023.

Police raid consulting agency as part as Paris 2024 probes

By REUTERS
 A view shows the Pulse building, the headquarters of the Paris 2024 Olympics organizing committee, as a police search is currently underway, in Saint-Denis near Paris, France, June 20, 2023.

Paris 2024 Olympics headquarters being searched by police - organizers

By REUTERS
 Ben Helfgott, November 2021

Holocaust survivor, Olympic athlete Sir Ben Helfgott dies at 93

Ben Helfgott is knighted by Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace

Ben Helfgott, one of two Holocaust survivors to compete in the Olympics, dies at 93

By Jacob Gurvis/JTA
DAVID EVANGELISTA (left) has been involved in Special Olympics leadership roles for decades, and he has lobbied successfully in Israel and throughout the world for legislation addressing athletes with intellectual disabilities. Special Olympics World Games Berlin 2023 – the 16th edition of event

Special Olympics: Embracing strength of vulnerability through athletic achievement

By Uriel Sturm
 Pazit Rubens playing table tennis

Israeli athletes head to Berlin for Special Olympics

By LINDA GRADSTEIN
 SMADJA WITH father-trainer, Morris, who helped introduce judo to Israel.

Oren Smadja: The story of Israel's judo trailblazer

By DUDI FATIMER