Go, Maccabi!
On Wednesday night (Israel time,) after a roller-coaster season of highs and lows, basketball team Maccabi Tel-Aviv scaled the highest summit in European basketball and earned itself a ticket to the Euroleague Final Four, for the first time since 2011. Maccabi clinched a 3-1 quarterfinal series win over Olimpia Milano with an 86-66 victory at Nokia Arena, which was far tougher than the final score indicates.
Read moreParty on!
Matador Network and USA TODAY ranked the top 15 beach party destinations in the world. Our very own Tel-Aviv, which was ranked before as “top Startup city” and “world’s best gay destination,” came in first place. “Business licensing is lax here, which means there's always a new hotspot on the scene, with new clubs sometimes literally popping up overnight.” So when are you coming to party?
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The record and the drug test scandal
The latest scandal in Israel, involving the possibility of a new 100-meter dash record, shook up many athletics fans. Last Saturday, 22 year-old Olga Lensky broke Israel’s 100-meter dash record, at a minor sporting event, the Maccabi Edelson Championships. She was later scheduled to take a doping test, at the behest of the Israel National Anti-Doping Organization, part of the Israeli Olympic Committee. However, the athlete left the country on Sunday at short notice claiming she needed to visit her critically ill grandmother in Ukraine. Upon her return, she will face a hearing, and the possibility that the new record, 42 years after the current one was set, will not be uphold.
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Twitter campaign commemorating the Holocaust subverted by Pro-Palestinians
Pro-Palestinian Twitter users on Wednesday subverted an IDF social media campaign aimed at raising awareness about Holocaust survivors, instead using the campaign’s hashtag to promote the Palestinian narrative. The original campaign, followed by the hashtag #wewerehere, were aimed to enjoin users on the social media network to upload photos of Holocaust survivors with their current location in order “to map Holocaust survivors across the world” and “commemorate the memory of the Jews murdered during the Holocaust.”
Read more Israeli man who saved lives
The family of a 24 year-old motorcyclist Nadav Kreiman, who was killed in a road accident during the Passover holiday, agreed to donate his organs for transplant. By doing so, Nadav saved the lives of five others: A heart and kidney were given to a 51-year-old father of three; The other kidney was given to a 29 year-old woman who underwent her third transplant; His lungs went to a 64 year-old man and a 67 year-old man; His liver was donated to a 66-year-old man.
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