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Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Jewish athletes offered $3,500 to move to Israel

Cnaan Liphshiz, Haaretz
Israel will offer more than $3,500 to any foreign Maccabiah participant who decides to stay, the Immigrant Absorption Ministry announced on Sunday.

The Maccabiah, often called "the Jewish Olympics," has brought some 5,700 Jewish athletes and their coaches to Israel from all over the world in time for the opening ceremony on Monday in Ramat Gan.

..."Currently, each athlete marches under his or her national flag," Absorption Minister Sofa Landver said. "I hope that in future tournaments, many of them will march under one flag – the flag of the State of Israel, maybe as part of Israel's own Olympic team."

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