Laragh Widdess

Women and sport: Athena’s recipe for coexistence

Meet some of the 10,000 girls and women who came from all corners of the country to participate in Israel’s largest women’s sports event.

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#MayPac: The disaster that boxing won’t survive? – It Takes All Sports

It was billed as ‘The Fight of the Century’ and by any measure you could choose – money, rankings, talent, anticipation – it was.

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Rugby, bole, kava: When Fiji comes to Tel Aviv – It Takes All Sports

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.

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War games and Maccabiah games – It Takes All Sports

Host Laragh Widdess traces the history of the Maccabiah games – the “Jewish Olympics” – through Israel’s battle for independence up to the present day.

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The roaring stone – It Takes All Sports

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?

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Israel vs. Wales: The sunshine after the rain

Israel’s campaign to qualify for the 2016 European soccer championships in France have taken a serious dent, but it’s not all doom and gloom.

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It Takes All Sports Field Report: Israeli rugby’s road to Rio

Host Laragh Widdess attended the final of the Israeli rugby league to meet the sport’s key figures and to see what rugby in the Holy Land looks like.

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Sporting mensches: Getting Israeli Paralympics back on track

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.

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Sports news: Turning up the heat

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.

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