Tel Aviv’s Park Hayarkon is the last place you expect to hear a Fijian war chant. But that’s exactly what you find when you stumble upon the Middle East Bowl.
Host Laragh Widdess traces the history of the Maccabiah games – the “Jewish Olympics” – through Israel’s battle for independence up to the present day.
How did curling, invented in medieval Scotland, make it to the sultry, sandy Middle East, and become the only Winter Olympic team sport played in Israel?
Former TLV1 sports presenter, Ari Louis, visits the studio to explain what it’s like reporting on team sports in a country that largely sidelines them.
You probably had no idea that Israel hosted the Paralympic Games in 1968, or that Israel’s athletes have had more success at the Paralympics than the Olympics.
Tel Aviv marathon suffers from heat exhaustion; why owning an Israeli premier league soccer club can be deadly; and an underwater sport you’ve never heard of.