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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 365

extreme sports

An undated photo shows Yonatan Tarango, an Israeli killed during a wingsuit jump in Italy's Alps on July 21, 2022 (Courtesy)
July 22, 2022, 11:24 am
Israeli killed while jumping with wingsuit in Italian Alps
Yonatan Tarango hit slope of Mont Blanc while taking part in extreme sport
By ToI Staff
Leah Goldstein pushes hard in the last 500 miles of Race Across America 2021, June 24, 2021. (Tara Roberts/RAAM Media)
July 10, 2021, 8:36 am
Jewish Canadian cyclist is first woman to win toughest ultra-endurance race
Crossing finish line in 11 days, 3 hours and 3 minutes, Leah Goldstein traverses 3,000 miles to take first place in overall solo in grueling Race Across America
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Danielle Wolfson, 43, becomes the first Israeli woman to reach the Mount Everest summit. (Courtesy)
May 29, 2021, 8:04 am
Danielle Wolfson becomes 1st Israeli woman to reach Mount Everest summit
Tel Aviv lawyer issues message for coexistence back home after climbing all 8,849 meters; a skiing accident a decade ago left her bedridden for months
By ToI Staff
Danielle Wolfson climbs the face of Mount Everest. (Screenshot/Ch. 13)
April 27, 2021, 6:03 pm
Tel Aviv lawyer on Everest hopes to become first Israeli woman to reach summit
Danielle Wolfson says she wants to show that ‘every woman can reach her Everest’; a skiing accident a decade ago left her bedridden for months
By ToI Staff
A kitesurfer at the extreme Storm Riders competition in Haifa, Wednesday, February 17, 2021. (Photo by Uri Magnus/ www.urimagnus.com)
February 18, 2021, 4:30 pm
Israeli surfers fight for survival in stormy extreme water-sports competition
Israel’s most daring wind and kitesurfers battle 7-meter waves and winds gusting over 80 kph during Storm Rider competition in Haifa
By Elie Bleier
A skier on the upper slopes of Mt Hermon Ski Resort on January 23, 2018. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)
January 25, 2019, 6:49 pm
Missile fire can’t dampen Israel’s winter wonderland, with record snow on Hermon
Israel’s only ski resort offers surprisingly good skiing once you escape the crowds, with three times as much snowfall this year as an average winter
By Melanie Lidman
The rabbi who leads the weekly Jewish prayer service at Deer Valley ski resort sometimes alters the traditional prayer for rain to a prayer for snow. (Uriel Heilman/JTA)
February 15, 2016, 4:48 am
You are welcome at the most uplifting Shabbat service in the world
Nestled off a steep blue-on-white intermediate trail, Friday evening prayers start promptly in Utah’s Deer Valley Ski Schule
By Uriel Heilman
In this Monday, Jan. 18, 2016 photo, Iranian rock climber, Farnaz Esmaeilzadeh, scales a climbing gym in the city of Zanjan, some 330 kilometers (207 miles) west of the capital Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
February 1, 2016, 1:56 pm
Women’s rock climbing gains foothold in Iran
Hundreds of women in Islamic Republic compete in nationwide extreme events
By AP
Alain Robert, 52, scales the 75-story Cayan Tower in Dubai on Sunday, April 13, 2015 (screen capture: YouTube)
April 13, 2015, 12:26 pm
French Spiderman scales Dubai tower
Alain Robert, 52, climbs twisting, 75-story skyscraper
By AP
Omer Mei-Dan jumps into the Cave of Swallows, a 1,200-foot-deep site in Mexico. (Courtesy Omer Mei-Dan/JTA)
April 10, 2015, 5:18 pm
Israeli orthopedic surgeon works and plays to the extreme
The difference between life and death is one-tenth of a second for BASE jumpers like Dr. Omer Mei-Dan
By Uriel Heilman
Sergey, 24, doing a backflip on a skyscraper in Ashdod (photo credit: YouTube screen grab)
August 9, 2014, 11:46 am
Parkour mishap will make you shudder
24-year-old Sergey backflips on ledge of 40-story Ashdod building, slips, lives to tell the tale
By ToI Staff
An AirDog (top left) follows some extreme windsurfers, taking video of the their stunts (Photo credit: Courtesy)
June 30, 2014, 2:29 pm
Israeli 3D tech behind ‘ultimate selfie’ sports drone
Latvian company uses Stratasys’ born-in-Israel printers in world’s first drone for extreme sports photography
By David Shamah
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