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“Baseball has often brought kind of joy to people in difficult times,” he told reporters. “To put it mildly, it’s interesting times right now.”
More than 50,000 runners, elite internationals and IDF soldiers will pack the city’s streets Friday for Israel’s biggest-ever sporting event.
“Friends, Am Yisrael chai! (‘The nation of Israel lives!’),” Gordon, 19, said in a first statement posted to Instagram.
Jack Hughes, who scored the winning goal, was one of three Jewish players on the U.S. Olympic team.
The delegation tried to replace one of the team members with Druze athlete Ward Fawarseh; substitutions are permitted only in cases of injury or illness.
Byron Scott, a part of the “showtime” era of the Los Angeles Lakers, told JNS that he “would like for more athletes to be a little more vocal” on the subject.
“We can’t pray for a miracle,” an Israel Baseball official told JNS. “We just gotta go play better than the other team. It’s that simple.”
“This is just stuff that other teams do not have to deal with,” an Israel Baseball official told JNS. “We don’t talk about it that much,” he said.
“It is unacceptable that broadcasting unions around the world disgrace Israeli athletes,” said Israeli Minister of Culture and Sports Miki Zohar.
The NBA legend praised Portland Trail Blazers forward Deni Avdija, the first Israeli to play in the league’s All-Star Game.
Dublin may move its October home match to a neutral venue over security concerns amid hostility to the Jewish state.
Consideration should be given as to “whether any aesthetic appreciation of these games can be comfortably separated from the horror that followed,” Christine Schmidt, co-director of the Wiener Holocaust Library, told “CNN.”
