Israel's News & Views BlogVeteran Israeli coach Ilan Kowalsky is being named the new head coach of the Palestinian national basketball team.
Kowalsky, who coached the Palestinian team in the past without pay, has received an official offer to head the ball club.
The Palestinians were seeking a coach who can travel with the team to tournaments in Arab countries. [...]
Who remembers Shahar Peer? At the 2007 Australian Open, Peer became the first Israeli woman to reach the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam event.
In February of 2009, though, the young lady was prevented from playing in the Dubai Tennis Championships, after being denied a visa by the United Arab Emirates. Reason? Because that particular [...]
The ex-manager and vice chairman of the Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball club, Moni Fanan was found hanging in his North Tel Aviv apartment Tuesday, in an obvious suicide.
Those who knew Fanan were aware that he had accumulated upwards of $20 million in debt, as an unfortunate result of his investing large sums of money in [...]
The 18th Maccabiah Games, Israel’s Jewish Olympiad, are finally here; and judging from the number of registered athletes and other visitors, the two week event promises to be even bigger and better than previous ones with various sporting events taking place all over the country. As in previous Maccabiah venues, the big challenge is being [...]
It’s not like American football, and it’s not nearly as popular as “kadur regel” or European football (i.e. soccer to Americans), but the manly sport of rugby is on the map in Israel and gaining in popularity. Saturday’s game at the Wingate Institute outside Netanya pitted Israel’s national team against a visiting team from Slovenia. [...]
