Maccabi Tel Aviv’s Artyom Dolgopyat captured floor bronze at the World Gymnastics Championships
Olympic gymnast Artyom Dolgopyat (Maccabi Tel Aviv), secured the bronze medal in the floor exercise final at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Rotterdam, Netherlands, finishing with a score of 14.466. This marks Dolgopyat’s fourth career World Championship medal, completing a full set of colors across his career (following gold in Antwerp 2023, and silvers […]
The second year of activity for the Olympism program within the Druze community has begun
The second Year of “Olympism” Program Kicks Off in the Golan Heights Druze Communities to Scout Next Generation of Sports TalentThe second year of the Olympism program—a flagship initiative by the Olympic Committee of Israel designed to identify and nurture young sports talent within the Druze community-officially commenced in the Golan Heights. The launch featured two […]
Raz Hershko Wins Bronze Medal at the World Judo Championships
Raz Hershko (+78 kg) won the bronze medal at the World Judo Championships held in Baku. Hershko opened her campaign with an ippon victory over Ling Fang Chang of Chinese Taipei. She then defeated Emma-Melis Aktas of Estonia in the round of 16, followed by a quarterfinal win over Beatriz Souza of Brazil. In the […]
Meet The Israeli Delegation to Dakar 2026
Eleven Israeli athletes will represent Israel in eight sports at the Youth Olympic Games in Dakar this October: boxing, athletics, judo, artistic gymnastics, fencing, archery, swimming and sailing. For the first time in Israel’s history of participation in the Youth Olympic Games, the delegation will also compete in boxing and fencing. Today, the delegation held […]
Sport, Education and the Environment Came Together This Morning at Achziv Beach
Olympic fencer Yuval Freilich, 15 athletes from the Israeli artistic swimming team, and approximately 75 third-grade students from Maayanot Kabri School took part in a joint beach cleanup initiative led by EcoOcean and the Israel Olympic Committee. The participants collected waste along the shoreline and learned about marine pollution, the impact of waste on the […]
For the second consecutive year, a special seminar was held at the Munich House in Tel Aviv, focusing on the impact of the Munich massacre of the 11 Israeli athletes on the identity of today’s athletes
For the second consecutive year, a special seminar was held at the Munich House in Tel Aviv, focusing on the impact of the Munich massacre of the 11 Israeli athletes on the identity of today’s athletes. The day opened with a wreath-laying ceremony attended by the Representative of the Bavarian State Government in Israel, Steven […]
Tamar Steinberg won the 2026 world windsurfing championship
Tamar Steinberg, 20, won gold today at the IQFoil World Championship, held in Weymouth and Portland, UK. Sharon Kantor, runner-up at the Paris Olympics, completed a double Israeli achievement with silver, while Daniela Peleg finished fourth. Steinberg was the standout figure in the competition from start to finish. She opened the championship perfectly with four […]
The Memorial Ceremony for the Eleven Munich Victims – 54 Years of Remembrance
Last night the 54th memorial ceremony was held for the eleven Munich victims — members of the Israeli delegation to the 1972 Munich Olympics — who were murdered by terrorists. The ceremony was held, as it is every year, at the Eleven Square (Rehavat HaYud-Alef) in Tel Aviv–Yafo, hosted by Olympic medalist Arik Zeevi, with […]
Olympikids – An Olympic experience to wrap up the summer vacation
To mark the end of the summer break, the Olympic Committee of Israel hosted “OlympiKids” days—activity days for children of the Olympic family aged 6–12 that turned the summer into an experience of sports, values, and inspiration.Throughout the days, the children tried out a variety of Olympic and Paralympic sports led by Ofir Shaham, Moran Samuel, […]
The Annual Memorial Ceremony was held in Munich today in memory of Kehat Shor, one of the eleven victims of the Munich massacre
Today, the annual memorial ceremony was held in Munich in memory of Kehat Shor, coach of the Israeli national shooting team and a member of the Israeli Olympic delegation, who was among the eleven Israeli victims murdered during the 1972 Olympic Games. As part of the ceremony, the Kehat Shor Cup was awarded for the […]