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Eliyahu Amiel - Maccabi Cairo and Passover eve
Maccabi Cairo was a sports association and basketball team in particular, which belonged to the Maccabi World Organization, and was previously held in the city of Cairo, the capital of...
Elias Katz - Maccabist
Elias (Eliyahu, Alo) Katz (1901–1947) was a Finnish-Jewish runner from Eretz Israel, an Olympic champion (Paris 1924) with two medals and a world record. Katz belonged to a group of...
Maccabi Berlin
Sports Association Maccabi Berlin Founded in 1898 as "Bar Kochba Berlin" and was one of the largest Jewish sports organizations in the world in 1930 when it numbered 40,000 members from 24...
Maccabi Vilna between 2 world wars
The Maccabi Sports Association in Vilnius (Vilna) was one of the most prominent Jewish sports associations in Europe at the beginning of the 20th century. It had football teams, cycling,...
How we got here
The global movement "Maccabi" Founded in 1895 in Constantinople, Turkey (modern-day Istanbul) against a backdrop of anti-Semitism. A group of Jewish gymnasts who wanted to join the local sports club...
How it all began
The Maccabi Israel Center is the oldest of the sports organizations in Israel, when it was established in late Tel Aviv in 1912 and has since led moves to develop...