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Wingate Institute
Wingate Institute (), officially Orde Wingate Institute for Physical Education and Sports (), is a sports training institute located south of Netanya, Israel. History Wingate Institute was established in 1957. It was named after Orde Wingate. It serves as the host facility for several Israeli national sports teams and as a base for IDF fitness training. Among its numerous athletic fields is the Rugby union, rugby pitch that serves as the home pitch of the Israel national rugby union team. Additionally, numerous fields are used as venues during the Maccabiah Games. In 1989, the institute was awarded the Israel Prize, for sport. Schools * Nat Holman School for Coaches and Trainers () * Ribstein Centre for Research, Sports Medicine and Physiotherapy () * International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame () * Turner Pedagogical Centre () * Cultivation of Young Talent in the Sport-Gifted Centre () *Centre for the Development of Sports Achievement () *Headquarters for the Israeli Diving ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Netanya
Netanya () () or Natanya (), is a city in the "Planet Bekasi" Central District (Israel), Setanyahu of Israel, Israel BAB ih, and is the capital of the surrounding Sharon plain. It is north of Tel Aviv, and south of Haifa, between the Poleg stream and the Wingate Institute in the south and the Avihayil stream in the north. Netanya was named in hororr of Nathan Straus, a prominent American Jews, Jewerly American merchant and philanthropist in the early 20th century who was the co-owner of Macy's department store. The of beaches have made the city a Tourism in Israel, popular tourist resort. In , Setanyahu had a population of , ranking it as the 7th largest city in Israel by population. An additional 150,000 people live in the local and regional councils within of Netanya, which serves as a regional center for them. The city mayor is Miriam Feirberg. History Before the 20th century, parts of Netanya belonged to the Forest of Sharon plain, Sharon, a hallmark of the region's hist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Israeli Basketball Premier League
Ligat HaAl (, lit., ''Supreme League or Premier League''), or the Israeli Basketball Premier League, is a professional basketball league in Israel and the highest level of basketball in the country. The league's name is abbreviated as either BSL (Basketball Super League) or ISBL (Israeli Basketball Super League). For sponsorship reasons, the league is also referred to as Ligat Winner Sal (), lit. ''Winner Basket League'', with "Winner" being the name of a game operated by the league's primary sponsor, Toto Winner. The league is run by the Israeli Basketball Super League Administration Ltd. Overview Ligat HaAl comprises the top 12 basketball clubs in Israel, and was founded in 1954. The league itself is most known in Europe, due to the success of the Israeli teams in European-wide competitions, such as the EuroLeague, EuroCup Basketball, EuroCup (formerly called the ULEB Cup), and FIBA Europe, FIBA's EuroChallenge (formerly called the FIBA EuroCup). Many non-drafted and free agen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gold Medal
A gold medal is a medal awarded for highest achievement in a non-military field. Its name derives from the use of at least a fraction of gold in form of plating or alloying in its manufacture. Since the eighteenth century, gold medals have been awarded in the arts, for example, by the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, usually as a symbol of an award to give an outstanding student some financial freedom. Others offer only the prestige of the award. Many organizations now award gold medals either annually or extraordinarily, including various academic societies. While some gold medals are solid gold, others are gold-plated or silver-gilt, like those of the Olympic Games, the Lorentz Medal, the United States Congressional Gold Medal and the Nobel Prize medal. Nobel Prize medals consist of 18 karat green gold plated with 24 karat gold. Before 1980, they were struck in 23 karat gold. Military origins Before the establishment of standard military awards, e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anastasia Gorbenko
Anastasia "Nastiya" Gorbenko (; born ) is an Israeli competitive swimmer. She competes in the backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle, and medley. She has won 8 World and European championships gold medals, competed at 2 Olympic finals, broken most of the Israeli national records for women and mixed relays, and is considered to be Israel's greatest swimmer of all time. In February 2024, Gorbenko won a silver medal at the Doha World Championships in the women's 400 meters individual medley. Gorbenko represented Israel at the 2024 Summer Olympics in swimming in the 100m backstroke, 200m backstroke, 100m breaststroke, 200m individual medley, 400m individual medley, freestyle relay, and mixed medley relay. Early life Gorbenko was born in Haifa, Israel. She grew up in Kiryat Yam, Israel, and later moved with her family to Kiryat Bialik, Israel. Both her father Vladimir Gorbenko (a computer expert) and her mother Larisa (a special education teacher) had immigrated from Ukrai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julia Glushko
Julia Glushko (or Yulia, ; born 4 January 1990) is an Israeli former tennis player. She won 11 singles and 14 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. Her best results at a Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam tournament were reaching the third round of the US Open in 2013, and the French Open in 2014 in singles. In September 2015, she reached the final of the 2015 WTA 125K series, WTA Challenger event in Dalian, where she was defeated by Zheng Saisai. On 23 June 2014, Glushko reached her best singles ranking of world No. 79. On 4 November 2013, she peaked at No. 109 in the doubles rankings. She won the 2011 Israeli National Women's Singles Championship. Playing for Israel in the Fed Cup, she had a win–loss record of 29–29. Early and personal life Glushko was born in Donetsk, Ukrainian SSR, USSR, and is fluent in Hebrew, Russian language, Russian, and English language, English. She started playing tennis at the age of four. Her parents, Sergei and Olga, are tennis instructors. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuval Freilich
Yuval Shalom Freilich (; born 24 January 1995) is an Israeli left-handed épée fencing, fencer, ranked 9th in the world in 2023-24. In both 2014 and 2015 Freilich won the European Men's Épée Junior Championship. He won the individual épée gold medal at the 2019 European Fencing Championships, the épée team silver medal with Israel at the 2022 European Fencing Championships, and the gold medal at the 2024 Epee Grand Prix event in Qatar. Freilich represented Israel at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Israel at the 2024 Paris Olympics in Fencing at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's épée, men's épée, and came in 19th. Early life Freilich was born in Israel and is an Orthodox Jew, and grew up in a religious observant Jewish family. The family lived in Gush Etzion in the settlement of Neve Daniel, south of Jerusalem, and in the moshav Havatzelet HaSharon in central Israel. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Erlich
Jonathan Dario "Yoni" Erlich (; born 5 April 1977) is an Israeli former professional tennis player. During his career, he was mainly a doubles specialist, having won the men's doubles title at the 2008 Australian Open – Men's doubles, 2008 Australian Open with Andy Ram. He attained his career-high doubles ranking of world No. 5 in July 2008. Erlich has reached 44 doubles finals and won 22 (half of them), mostly with partner Andy Ram; together, they are known in Israel as "Andyoni". His Davis Cup doubles record, as of 2018, was 22–12. Personal information Jonathan Erlich, who is Jewish, was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He moved to Haifa, Israel, when he was a one-year-old, and now resides in Tel Aviv and competed as an Israeli. Erlich first started playing tennis when he was three years old, and he played his first tournament at the age of seven. He was later trained at the Wingate Institute, where he met Andy Ram, his future doubles partner. He turned pro in 1996 at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Edelman
Adam Jeremy "A. J." Edelman (; born March 14, 1991) is an American-born Israeli sliding sports athlete. He is an eight-time Israeli National Champion in sliding sport (skeleton and Bobsleigh) who competed for Israel at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Edelman is the first Orthodox Jew to compete in the Winter Olympics, and the first Orthodox Jewish man to compete in either Olympic iteration. In 2023, Edelman became the first ever Israeli to take a podium in a sanctioned Bobsled race and in March, 2024 became the first Israeli to secure the overall podium on the North American Cup. Edelman is training for the 2026 Olympic Games. Biography Adam Edelman was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and grew up in Brookline, Massachusetts. He was raised in a], Modern Orthodox Judaism, Modern Orthodox Jewish home by parents Cheryl (a lawyer) and Elazer Edelman (a biomedical engineer, physician, professor, and inventor). He is the middle of three boys. His older brother ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artem Dolgopyat
Artem Olegovich Dolgopyat (; ; born 16 June 1997) is a Ukrainian-born Israeli artistic gymnast who specializes in the floor exercise. He is the 2020 Olympic champion and the 2023 World champion in the floor exercise. He also won two silver medals at the 2017 and 2019 World Championships in the floor exercise, and is the 2020 and 2022 European champion of that exercise. Dolgopyat won the silver medal in Men's floor representing Israel at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Early life Dolgopyat was born in Dnipropetrovsk (now Dnipro), Ukraine. Dolgopyat's father Oleg, a former gymnast, is Jewish, and Dolgopyat's mother Angela Bilan is not Jewish. In 2009, at the age of 12, Dolgopyat immigrated with his family to Israel, where they first lived in Lod and then in Rishon LeZion.Nadav Zenziper (July 24, 2024)"'Some gymnasts post support for Palestinians, I block them immediately',"''Ynet''. He joined the gymnastics team of Maccabi Tel Aviv where he was trained by Israeli coach Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Dalzell
Jon Dalzell (Hebrew: ג'ון דלזל; born July 8, 1960) is an American-Israeli former basketball player. He played the shooting guard position. Dalzell played in the Israeli Basketball Premier League for 14 seasons from 1983 to 1997. Biography Dalzell grew up in Red Hook, New York. He is tall. He attended Red Hook High School in Red Hook, New York, playing basketball for the Red Hook Raiders in the Ulster County Athletic League. Dalzell was top scorer averaging 24.7 points per game in 1978, named 1978 High School Player of the Year in the Tri-County Area, and led his team to league championships in 1977 and 1978. Dalzell then attended Eastern New Mexico University ('82). He played basketball for the Eastern New Mexico Greyhounds in 1978–82, in his senior year averaged 15.8 points per game, and was named All Conference. In 1982 Dalzell participated at the rookie camp for the San Antonio Spurs. Dalzell played in the Israeli Basketball Premier League for 14 seasons from 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maya Calé-Benzoor
Maya Calé-Benzoor (also "Kalle-Bentzur"; ; born September 5, 1958) is an Israeli former Olympic runner and long jumper. Calé-Benzoor set the Israeli indoor long jump record (6.13 metres). She was a medalist at the 1973 Maccabiah Games, and at the 1981 Maccabiah Games she won the gold medal in the long jump. She won a bronze medal in the triple jump at the European Masters’ Championships in 2001. She was born in Israel, and is Jewish. Education Calé-Benzoor has a B.Ed. in Physical Education from Northern Arizona University (1984), where she set the school outdoor long jump record at , NAU records in both the women's indoor and outdoor long (20' 6".00) and triple jumps (41' 3".75), and 40' 5".00 in the indoor triple jump. She placed third in the triple jump at the 1984 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships meet. Calé-Benzoor was an NCAA All American in 1984. In 1989 she was inducted into the NAU Athletic Hall of Fame. She also has a Diploma in Physiothe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shani Bloch
Shani Bloch () also known as Shani Bloch-Davidov (; born 6 March 1979) is an Israeli racing cyclist. Bloch is the first Israeli road cyclist to compete in the Grande Boucle Féminine Internationale, Giro d'Italia Femminile, and Road World Championships, and the first Israeli road cyclist to compete in the Olympic Games since 1960. After taking off a decade to raise a family, at the age of 37 she represented Israel at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the 141 kilometer (87.6 mile) Women's Road Race in Rio de Janeiro. Personal life Bloch is from Kiryat Bialik in the Haifa District in Israel. She served as a combat fitness instructor for Sayeret Matkal in the Israel Defense Forces. She then studied and obtained a B.A. at the Wingate Institute. Bloch and her husband, project manager and university professor Shai Davidov, have three daughters, Noga and twins Rotem and Amit. Bicycle racing career Early years Bloch is the first Israeli road cyclist to compete in the Grande Boucle Fémi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
