Israeli olympic team

No Minister, no passport: Bureaucracy risks Israel’s 2026 Winter Olympic dreams

“If these athletes cannot represent Israel, the delegation will almost not exist. That would be a major failure and a crying shame for generations,” said an Israeli Olympic Committee official.

FIGURE SKATER Mariia Seniuk, selected as Israel’s flag bearer, faces uncertainty over her participation in the 2026 Winter Olympics next month in Italy due to a passport issue, a bureaucratic fiasco affecting much of the blue-and-white delegation.
Adi Bichman brings decades of experience in Israeli sport – as an athlete and executive –into her new position as CEO of the Israel Olympic Committee.

Former Olympian Adi Bichman appointed CEO of Israel Olympic Committee

Israeli Olympians meet with children in Kibbutz Tzora.

Israeli Olympic athletes empower children with physical disabilities at Kibbutz Tzora

OCI EXECUTIVES, athletes and Ze BeNafshi members pose during their joint event over the weekend.

Olympic Committee of Israel and ‘Ze BeNafshi’ team up


Solidarity with Israel fits Alon Leichman like a glove

Blue-and-white baseball and softball players wear their support on their hands.

 BASEBALL GLOVE designer Jake Hale (right) has been working with Cincinnati Reds assistant pitching coach Alon Leichman (left) and other Israeli athletes to create unique Israel-themed mitts (inset) in the aftermath of October 7 and the ensuing war.

Will Israel be banned from the Paris 2024 Olympics? - analysis

An article in The Nation discusses concerns that Israel's war in Gaza could see it banned from the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, its athletes made to compete under a neutral flag.

HANNA MINENKO and Yaakov Toumarkin lead the Israeli delegation of athletes at the opening of the Tokyo Olympics, in which the country captured four medals.

Israel wins first-ever gold medal at rhythmic gymnastics world championships

The silver medal win at last year’s world championship secured a spot for Israel in the group competition at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Tokyo 2020 Olympics - Gymnastics - Rhythmic - Individual All-Around - Medal Ceremony - Ariake Gymnastics Centre, Tokyo, Japan - August 7, 2021. Gold medallist Linoy Ashram of Israel poses with her medal

National Team heads to Estonia for Olympic Pre-Qualifying tourney

Israel is in a four-team group at the 2024 Olympic Basketball Pre-Qualifying Tournament that also includes host nation Czech Republic.

 ISRAEL COACH Ariel Beit Halachmi (left) has his work cut out for him as the National Team will play in the Olympic Pre-Qualifying Tournament this weekend minus a number of injured players, including captain Tomer Ginat (right).

Israel’s senior hoopsters gear up for games

Olympic Pre-Qualifying Tournament on tap • Will Deni play? Any U20ers on National Team?

 DENI AVDIJA (left) talks with Israel head coach Ariel Beit Halachmi this week during the opening practice for the National Team at Tel Aviv’s Drive-In Arena.

Iran wrestler accused of boycott against Israeli wrestler by overeating

‘Olympic Committee and Wrestling Federation turned a blind eye’ to Iran bias against Israel, Sardar Pashaei, the former head of Iran's national Greco-Roman wrestling told the Post.

 Amir Mohammad Yazdani.

Israeli athletes need more support - editorial

We can only wonder what Israelis athletes could have achieved if they had received even more support during their long, arduous years of training.

The Israeli Olympic delegation medalists upon their arrival at Ben Gurion Airport, August 1, 2022.

Israel's Rhythmic gymnastics Olympic champ Linoy Ashram retires at 22

Ashram won the individual all-around gold in Tokyo last year to break Russia's 20-year-long stranglehold on the Olympic title.

 LINOY ASHRAM brought home the gold in rhythmic gymnastics.

Orthodox ice skater Hailey Kops went from Yeshiva to Olympics

A Modern Orthodox Jew from West Orange, New Jersey, Kops had plans to attend nursing school before being offered a chance to vie for a spot on Israel's Olympic team.

 Krasnolpolsky and Kops at Israel's national championships, Dec. 1 2021.

This is why Israel’s female athletes are so fierce

The woman who supervises the promotion of women in sports at the Culture and Sport Ministry, Nurit Sharvit, explains what might be behind the success of Israel's female Olympic athletes.

 UP AND coming: Israeli Rhythmic gymnast Nicol Zelikman was a two-time medalist at the 2016 European Junior Championships.