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Podium of the male floor at the 2009 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. From left to right on the podium: Zou Kai (China, 2nd place), Marian Drăgulescu (Romania, 1st place) a
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London, 17 October 2009: The Floor Routine That Gave Israeli Gymnastics Its First World Medal

At The O2 Arena, a 22-year-old born in Tashkent turned ninety seconds of tumbling into the first World Championships medal Israeli gymnastics had ever won.

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The Israeli retired Pole vaulter Aleksandr Averbukh during the 2nd day of the Israel track and field championship 2011
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Munich, 10 August 2002: The Vault That Gave Israel Its First European Gold

Thirty years after eleven Israeli athletes were murdered in Munich, a Siberian-born pole vaulter climbed the podium in the same Olympic Stadium — sobbing, wrapped in the flag he had chosen over Russia's.

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Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir shakes hands with basketball star Mickey Berkowitz during a Maccabi Tel Aviv reception at the Dan Hotel in Tel Aviv. ראש הממשלה יצחק שמיר לוחץ יד לשחק
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Strasbourg, 26 March 1981: The Basket That Gave Maccabi Its Second European Crown

In a packed Hall Rhénus, Miki Berkovich took a pass from Motti Aroesti and sent Maccabi Tel Aviv past Sinudyne Bologna, 80–79, completing a treble and proving 1977 was no accident.

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Israeli tennis player Dudi Sela at the Israel tennis championship 2008 final against Harel Levy
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Tel Aviv, 11 July 2009: The Night Israel's Tennis Team Reached Its First Davis Cup Semifinal

A 210th-ranked underdog, a five-set doubles epic, and a crowd singing Hatikvah inside Yad Eliyahu Arena — the weekend Israel beat two-time champions Russia and reached uncharted territory in world tennis.

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Photo that I took during the game between Israel and UK on 9/22/16 - Galatz Talk 14:24, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
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Seoul, 6 March 2017: The Night Baseball's Biggest Underdog Beat the Host Nation

Ranked 41st in the world and dismissed as a novelty act, Team Israel walked into a sold-out dome in Seoul and beat South Korea in extra innings — the game that launched the most improbable run in World Baseball Classic history.

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Ariel McDonald with Akasvayu Girona. Match ViveMenorca-Akasvayu Girona
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Paris, 13 May 2001: The Only Year Europe Crowned Two Champions

In the single season European basketball split in two, Pini Gershon's Maccabi Tel Aviv beat Panathinaikos 81–67 in the Bercy arena to win the rebel FIBA SuproLeague — ending a twenty-year wait for a continental crown, on a night the club had to share the title of "champion of Europe" with a team it never played.

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Omri Casspi of the Houston Rockets goes up for a dunk during an NBA preseason basketball game against the New Orleans Pelicans, October 5, 2013, at the Toyota Center in Houston, Te
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Oklahoma City, 28 October 2009: The Night an Israeli First Walked Onto an NBA Court

Omri Casspi's 15 points off the Sacramento Kings bench made him the first Israeli-born player in NBA history — and gave a basketball-mad nation a reason to set its alarms for 5 a.m.

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Israeli National Soccer Player Mordechai Spiegler
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León, 20 October 1968: The Draw From a Sombrero That Invented the Penalty Shoot-Out

Israel's Olympic footballers were beaten by lottery, not by play, when a Bulgarian slip of paper ended their run in Mexico. The heartbreak that followed gave the world the penalty shoot-out.

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Bronze medalist judoka Arik Ze'evi at Ben-Gurion Airport upon his arrival from Athens 2004 Olympic Games
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Athens, 19 August 2004: The Bronze That Arrived Before the Gold

Five days before Gal Fridman's windsurfing gold made headlines, judoka Arik Ze'evi quietly opened Israel's medal count in Athens — beating a Dutchman by ippon after a detour through the repechage.

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Israeli taekwondoo athlete Avishag Semberg in 2020
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Tokyo, 24 July 2021: The Girl From Gedera Who Gave Israel Its First Taekwondo Medal

Down 29-5 to the eventual gold medalist just hours earlier, 19-year-old Avishag Semberg fought back through the repechage and a wild third-round swing to win bronze — Israel's first medal of the Tokyo Games and its first ever in taekwondo.

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Israeli basketball player Micky Berkowitz
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Turin, 19 June 1979: The Silver That Remains Israeli Basketball's Highest Peak

In a rented Italian arena, Ralph Klein's Israel upset Yugoslavia, stunned a continent, and reached a European final no Israeli national team has reached since — with Miki Berkovich named the tournament's finest player even in defeat.

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Shahar Zubari
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Qingdao, 20 August 2008: The Comeback That Gave Israel Its Only Beijing Medal

After a mid-week collapse threatened to sink his campaign, windsurfer Shahar Zubari clawed back into podium contention and sailed to bronze in the RS:X medal race — the single medal Israel would win at the Beijing Games.

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Andy Ram Playing Doubles At The 2006 U.S. Open
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Wimbledon, 8 July 2006: The Mixed Doubles Final That Made Andy Ram Israel's First Grand Slam Champion

On Centre Court, a doubles specialist from Israel and a 21-year-old Russian partner beat Bob Bryan and Venus Williams to give Israeli tennis its first professional major title.

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Gold medalist windsurfer Gal Fridman at Ben-Gurion Airport upon their arrival from Athens 2004 Olympic Games
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Savannah, 29 July 1996: The Bronze That Widened Israel's Olympic Horizons

A 20-year-old windsurfer from a Caesarea kibbutz sailed onto the podium at Wassaw Sound and proved, four years after Barcelona, that Israeli Olympic sport was not a one-trick story.

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B. Gelfand at Corus tournament, January 2006. Own photo
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Dresden, 25 November 2008: The Silver That Finally Reached Israel's Chess Team

Boris Gelfand went through the 38th Chess Olympiad unbeaten, Israel handed eventual champions Armenia their only defeat of the tournament, and a nervy final-round win over the Netherlands delivered the national open team's first-ever medal at chess's biggest event.

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שני גביעי אירופה בהם זכתה קבוצת מכבי ת"א בכדורסל השמאלי משנת 1977 והימני משנת 2005
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Moscow, 8 May 2005: The 7–0 Run That Made Maccabi Back-to-Back Champions of Europe

A year after breaking the Tel Aviv scoreboard, Maccabi Tel Aviv beat Tau Cerámica in the Olimpiysky Arena to become the first club to retain the EuroLeague crown — with Šarūnas Jasikevičius doing the damage.

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Borís Gélfand y Vishy Anand durante el Campeonato Mundial 2012
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Moscow, 30 May 2012: The Queen Trap That Cost Israel Its First World Chess Champion

Boris Gelfand, the quiet grandmaster from Rishon LeZion, took Viswanathan Anand to a tiebreak for the World Chess Championship — and came within one blundered queen of making history.

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Yarden Gerbi
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Rio de Janeiro, 29 August 2013: The Forty-Three Seconds That Made Yarden Gerbi Israel's First World Judo Champion

A 24-year-old from Netanya beat five opponents by ippon in one night at the Maracanãzinho, finishing the French European champion in under a minute to win Israel's first-ever gold at a Judo World Championships.

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תמונה של שגיא מוקי לאחר זכייתו באליפות העולם בטוקיו, 2019
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Tokyo, 28 August 2019: The Night Sagi Muki Became Israel's First Male World Judo Champion

In the Nippon Budokan, Sagi Muki fought through a rival who wouldn't shake his hand to win gold at -81kg — never knowing that, on the other side of the draw, an Iranian friend had just thrown a match rather than risk facing him.

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Israeli individual rhythmic gymnast Linoy Ashram in 2018
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Tokyo, 7 August 2021: The Ribbon That Fell and the Gold That Stayed

Inside an empty arena in a pandemic-locked city, Linoy Ashram became the first Israeli woman to win Olympic gold — and ended two decades of Russian rule over rhythmic gymnastics' biggest individual prize.

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Israeli President Isaac Herzog and Prime Minister Naftali Bennett host a tribute event, Monday, August 16, in honor of the Israeli Tokyo 2020 athletes at Beit Hanasi, in Jerusalem
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Tokyo, 1 August 2021: The Tie-Break That Made Artem Dolgopyat Israel's Second Olympic Champion

A boy who arrived from Dnipro not knowing the word 'Israel' left Ariake Gymnastics Centre with the gold medal in men's floor exercise — won on a countback after two identical scores split by a single decimal of difficulty.

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Or Sasson at the 2016 Olympics
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Rio de Janeiro, 12 August 2016: The bow that never came, and the bronze that did

Or Sasson beat Islam El Shehaby in the first round of Olympic judo, and it was the handshake that never happened that made the world watch — but it was three more fights, and a loss to a legend, that made the medal his.

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Maccabi supporters at Forum di Assago during Euroleague 2014 final
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Assago, 18 May 2014: The Overtime Night Maccabi Stunned Real Madrid

Written off before the Final Four even began, Maccabi Tel Aviv beat CSKA Moscow and then Real Madrid on Italian soil to claim a sixth European crown — in the first Euroleague final to need overtime in 45 years.

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The stands and pitch of the GSP Stadium in Nicosia during an evening match
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Nicosia, 29 October 2002: the night Haifa humbled Manchester United

Exiled to a borrowed stadium in Cyprus, Itzhak Shum's Maccabi Haifa beat Manchester United 3-0 in the Champions League — still among the greatest results an Israeli club has ever produced in Europe.

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Tatalashvili (GEO) vs Muki (ISR) at the gold final of the 2015 European Games
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Abu Dhabi, 28 October 2018: The night Hatikvah finally played in the Gulf

A year after organisers silenced Israel's anthem for a judo champion in the UAE, Sagi Muki won gold on the same mat — and heard Hatikvah ring out where it never had before.

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ISRAELI SOCCER PLAYERS HOLDING THE ASIAN CUP AFTER THEIR VICTORY OVER SOUTH KOREA AT THE RAMAT GAN STADIUM
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Ramat Gan, 3 June 1964: The Asian Cup that Israel won and could never defend

Long before Europe, Israel was a football power in Asia — and for one week in 1964, the smallest confederation member of all became its champion.

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Gold Medalist Windsurfer Gal Fridman at the official reception at Ben-Gurion Airport for Israel’s Olympic athletes’ return from the Athens 2004 Olympic Games. זוכה מדליית הזהב בגלי
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Athens, 25 August 2004: The race that gave Israel its first Olympic gold

On a windswept afternoon at Agios Kosmas, a windsurfer from Kibbutz Sdot Yam turned a tactical gamble into the moment Hatikvah played at an Olympics for the first time.

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Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball team playing against the Phoenix Suns
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Tel Aviv, 1 May 2004: The night the Final Four broke the scoreboard

Playing a European final on their own floor for the first time, Maccabi Tel Aviv did not just win it — they demolished Skipper Bologna 118-74, the most one-sided championship game the Euroleague had ever seen.

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Maccabi Tel Aviv returned home from Belgrade after winning the European Basketball Championship
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Belgrade, 7 April 1977: The night Tal Brody put Israel "on the map"

A neutral-court upset over CSKA Moscow and a one-point final against Varese gave Maccabi Tel Aviv its first European basketball crown — and Israeli sport its most quoted sentence.

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Barcelona Olympic Medalist Yael Arad gives out her autograph to fans. זוכת המדליה האולימפית יעל ארד חותמת למעריצים. Photo: KOREN ZIV, 10/08/1992
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Barcelona, 30 de julio de 1992: la plata que puso fin a la espera

En su décima participación en unos Juegos Olímpicos, una judoca de 25 años nacida en Tel Aviv trajo por fin una medalla a casa, y la dedicó a los once que nunca regresaron de Múnich.

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Israel's first Olympic team before departing for the 1952 Helsinki Games
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Helsinki, 19 de julio de 1952: el día en que Israel entró en el movimiento olímpico

Hace setenta y cuatro años, una delegación de 25 integrantes desfiló bajo la bandera azul y blanca en el Estadio Olímpico de Helsinki. Los primeros Juegos Olímpicos de Israel no dejaron medallas, pero el propio debut fue un tranquilo acto de reconocimiento internacional para un Estado de apenas cuatro años.

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Esther Roth-Shahamorov at an athletics evening in July 2013
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Cincuenta años después: Montreal 1976, el lazo negro y la primera finalista olímpica de Israel

Los Juegos que se inauguraron el 17 de julio de 1976 solo pedían a los atletas israelíes que se presentaran, cuatro años después de Múnich. Esther Roth-Shahamorov respondió corriendo hasta una final olímpica, y redefinió para qué servía el deporte israelí.

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Yam Madar playing for Israel's youth national team in April 2018
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2018–19: los dos veranos que cambiaron el baloncesto formativo israelí

El primer título FIBA de Israel en Chemnitz tuvo continuidad con la defensa del título en Tel Aviv, convirtiendo a una generación revelación en el referente para cada selección Sub-20 que llegó después.

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The pitch and stands inside Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem
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16 de julio de 2001: la Maccabiah que se inauguró contra todo pronóstico

Los temores de seguridad, un cupo reducido de participantes y el recuerdo del desastre del puente de 1997 marcaron la 16.ª Maccabiah, pero más de 2.000 atletas desfilaron igualmente en el Estadio Teddy.

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Israel’s national football team line up at Bloomfield Stadium in January 1970
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México 1970: el gol que puso a Israel en el mapa del Mundial

Tres minutos después de que Suecia se adelantara en Toluca, Mordechai Spiegler respondió con un disparo lejano y creó un momento que sigue siendo único en la historia del fútbol israelí.

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The interior of the Parc des Princes in Paris, venue of Israel’s 3–2 win over France in 1993
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París, 1993: la noche en la que Israel convirtió un 2-1 en historia

Francia se preparaba para celebrar la clasificación al Mundial. Israel, colista del grupo y sin una sola victoria en la fase, marcó dos veces en los once minutos finales para dejar al Parc des Princes sin palabras.

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