Chess Team Takes Olympiad Silver
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Photo: Getty Images We’ll be candid here: Until this week, when news about the Israeli men’s chess team started hitting the wires, we had no idea there was such a thing as a Chess Olympiad. Clearly, we don’t know enough about the game. The Chess Olympiad takes place every other year; this year’s host was [...] |
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Israeli Tennis Has Global Bounce
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A positive sports update from ESPN: When it comes to the Israeli delegation of tennis players, they are small in number but strong in loyalty and determination, most especially for their homeland. For the three Israeli athletes — recent Australian Open doubles champions Jonathan Erlich and Andy Ram, and top 20-ranked Shahar Peer — fulfilling [...] |
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Shahar Peer Blazing to Quarter Finals at the US OPEN
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Anyone who has been following the US Open these past few days were probably glued to the Blake, Federer, and Williams sisters matches, but I’m also sure they enjoyed Saturday night’s showdown between the focused and determined Israeli Peer and the Czech Vaidisova. Peer dug in and won in a third set tie-break in what [...] |
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Shahar Peer Takes Time for the Kids before US OPEN
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Our very own top 20 tennis star took a little time out of her US Open training schedule for the disadvantaged kids of NYC. Way to build bridges and reach out to future fans. Shahar, you’re a true star. Best of luck next week during the tournament, we’ll be the folks howling and hooting from [...] |
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Shahar Pe’er Makes Top 20
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Shahar Pe’er recently made her Top 20 debut on the WTA Tour Rankings. Very cool, congrats Shahar! Here’s a bit of background on the tennis pro, brought to you by Wikipedia: Shahar Pe’er (born May 1, 1987, Jerusalem, Israel) is a professional female tennis player. She turned professional in 2004 and has been rapidly improving [...] |
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Israel ?s the NYC marathon
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It was a very “New York” experience. People hung out of apartment windows, music was blasting, whistles and cheers filled the area, all in honor of the New York City Marathon and its runners. And among the 37,000 runners were more than 50 representing Israel, cheered on by hundreds more who turned out to support [...] |
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Israeli Football
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When viewing this we were originally going to make some sort of sarcastic comment like, “No wonder Israel didn’t make the world cup”, but as you can see, we are masters of the obvious. Like Unlike |
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