JERUSALEM — The Israeli women’s basketball league canceled its entire season after local players went on strike to protest a new rule giving more playing opportunities to foreigners. The decision
NETANYA, Israel (AP) _ Hall of Fame volleyball coach Arie Selinger is back in Israel and on a mission.
After a 40-year international career, he’s fulfilling a vow to build
JERUSALEM (AP) _ Most new immigrants to Israel have traditionally come out of ideology, or to escape hardship and persecution. Jon Scheyer is coming to be a basketball superstar.
Thanks
JERUSALEM (AP) _ When Gershon Luxemburg started his boxing club 30 years ago, he was looking to build champions, not bridges.
But thanks to a loyal cadre of Jewish and
JERUSALEM (AP) — It’s early in a scoreless Israel Bowl and a crowd that includes armed soldiers, ultra-Orthodox Jews and skullcapped settlers waving Israeli flags erupts in celebration after Palestinian
JERUSALEM (AP) —Shahar Peer’s stirring run to the semifinals last week at the Dubai Championships was significant in more ways than one: The challenges the Israeli athlete faced off the
HADERA, Israel (AP) When Ayele Seteng arrived in Israel in 1991 with thousands of other frail Ethiopian immigrants, he was looking to flee famine and make a better life for
TEL AVIV, Israel — Shahar Peer is wearing an olive green military uniform now, far removed from her star turn at the U.S. Open two weeks ago.
Peer, ranked No.
JERUSALEM (AP) – Toto Tamuz wants to be an Israeli citizen and he’s going to withhold his soccer talents from the country’s national team until he becomes one.
Tamuz, who
RAMLE, Israel (AP) -Plenette Pierson of the WNBA champion Detroit Shock is used to playing in front of thousands of fans back home in the U.S. This winter, the 6-foot-3
UMM EL FAHM, Israel — Riham Agabaria has a left hook that will knock your socks off. Or your head scarf.
Sparring in her hometown in northern Israel, the shy
CAESAREA, Israel — The ball explodes off Zohar Sharon’s club and flies into the distance. Sharon can’t see it, but he knows it’s a good one and he flashes a