L’histoire du sport israélien, rassemblée.
Le dossier le plus récent ouvre la page d’accueil, tandis que chaque édition précédente reste ici, au sein d’une histoire quotidienne du sport israélien qui ne cesse de grandir.
36 articles
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Barcelone, 30 juillet 1992 : l'argent qui a mis fin à l'attente
Pour sa dixième participation aux Jeux olympiques, Israël a enfin ramené une médaille grâce à une judokate de 25 ans originaire de Tel-Aviv — qui l'a dédiée aux onze athlètes jamais revenus de Munich.
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Helsinki, 19 juillet 1952 : le jour où Israël est entré dans le mouvement olympique
Il y a soixante-quatorze ans jour pour jour, une délégation de 25 athlètes défilait derrière le drapeau bleu et blanc au stade olympique d'Helsinki. Les premiers Jeux olympiques d'Israël n'ont rapporté aucune médaille — mais ces débuts constituaient en eux-mêmes un discret acte de reconnaissance internationale pour un État âgé de quatre ans.
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Cinquante ans après : Montréal 1976, le ruban noir et la première finaliste olympique d'Israël
Les Jeux ouverts le 17 juillet 1976 demandaient simplement aux athlètes israéliens de se présenter, quatre ans après Munich. Esther Roth-Shahamorov a répondu en se qualifiant pour une finale olympique — redéfinissant du même coup la raison d'être du sport israélien.
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2018-2019 : les deux étés qui ont changé le basket israélien des jeunes
Le premier titre FIBA d'Israël, décroché à Chemnitz, a été suivi d'une défense du titre à domicile à Tel-Aviv, faisant d'une génération de la révélation la référence pour toutes les équipes U20 qui ont suivi.
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16 juillet 2001 : la Maccabiah qui a ouvert contre toute attente
Craintes sécuritaires, effectif réduit et souvenir de la catastrophe du pont de 1997 ont plané sur la 16e Maccabiah, mais plus de 2 000 athlètes sont tout de même entrés au Teddy Stadium.
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Mexique 1970 : le but qui a inscrit Israël sur la carte du Mondial
Trois minutes après l'ouverture du score suédoise à Toluca, Mordechai Spiegler a répondu d'une frappe lointaine et signé un instant qui demeure unique dans l'histoire du football israélien.
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Paris, 1993 : la nuit où Israël a transformé un 2-1 en pages d'histoire
La France s'apprêtait à fêter sa qualification pour la Coupe du monde. Israël, lanterne rouge du groupe et toujours sans victoire officielle, a inscrit deux buts dans les onze dernières minutes pour plonger le Parc des Princes dans la stupeur.
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