Japan to resume UNRWA funding The agency's sixth-biggest donor will release around $35 million of originally planned funding. April 2, 2024
El Al to start flights from Tel Aviv to Chicago and Tokyo, renew Boston route The airline had wanted to start the flights last year, but the coronavirus outbreak delayed those plans. Oct. 4, 2021
Two more gold and two silver bring Israel’s Paralympic medal count to five The second Israeli to win a gold medal at the Tokyo Games, Mark Malyar was born with cerebral palsy as was his twin, also a Paralympic swimmer. Abigail Klein Leichman and JNS staff Aug. 29, 2021
‘Thrill of victory and agony of defeat’? Paralympic athletes are already winners, say Israelis The Israeli Paralympics team is headed to Tokyo to compete in nine sports in the delayed 2020 Summer Paralympics from Aug. 24 to Sept. 5. Howard Blas Aug. 12, 2021
Team Israel’s Olympic baseball hopes end after loss to Dominican Republic Made up of American Jews and Israeli ballplayers, the team had been predicted to win the bronze medal. Aug. 3, 2021
‘Jews Always Run Away’: Fighting stereotypes in sports As the world tunes in to the Olympics in Tokyo, watching an enormous variety of sports in which athletes of all nationalities compete, it’s evident that these ideas connecting race with sporting ability belong in the garbage can of history. Ben Cohen July 30, 2021
Tokyo Police using Israeli aerostats to help secure Olympic games RT’s SkyStar 180 tactical aerostats are being used by law enforcement for public safety, event traffic and crowd control. July 29, 2021
Team Israel baseball submits expanded roster for Tokyo Summer Olympics It includes all 24 players who secured Israel’s spot by winning the WBSC Baseball Europe/Africa Olympic qualifier in September 2019. April 16, 2021
Israeli wheat exhibit stirs up big emotions in Tokyo Installation about wheat varieties on the brink of extinction wins first prize as part of Jerusalem Design Week delegation at the Design Art Tokyo Festival. Abigail Klein Leichman Dec. 2, 2019
