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Inbar Lanir poses with her gold medal after winning the World Judo Championships in Doha, Qatar, May 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Hussein Sayed)
May 12, 2023, 10:35 pm
Israel’s Inbar Lanir wins gold at World Judo Championships in Qatar
Judoka becomes Israel’s 3rd world champion, dedicates her win to those under rocket fire
By Luke Tress
Bronze medallists Team Israel celebrates during the medal ceremony for the mixed teams event of the 2022 World Judo Championships at the Humo Arena in Tashkent on October 13, 2022. (Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP)
October 13, 2022, 7:01 pm
Israel’s mixed judo team wins bronze at world championships in Uzbekistan
National team beats Netherlands 4:2 after overtaking Uzbek and South Korean teams and losing to French
By Sara Serfaty
Alain Schmitt, from France, celebrates his victory over Uuganbaatar Otgonbaatar, from Mongolia, after their men's - 81 kg fight at the World Judo Championships in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013. Schmitt won the bronze. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
December 2, 2021, 11:05 am
Israel Judo Association revokes job offer to French coach held for domestic violence
Olympian Margaux Pinot says she was beaten and strangled by her partner, Alain Schmitt, who was arrested and later released after a court hearing
By AFP and ToI Staff
Tahani Alqahtani of Saudi Arabia, left, and Raz Hershko of Israel react after competing in their women's +78kg elimination round judo match at the 2020 Summer Olympics on July 30, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
August 5, 2021, 5:43 pm
Israeli judoka Raz Hershko praises ‘brave’ Saudi opponent for fighting her
‘The politics stayed out of the competition and the sport won in the end,’ the Israeli bronze medalist tells Saudi daily
By Amy Spiro
Israel's Sagi Muki raises his hands as he celebrates after winning in the men's under 81 kg weight category during the European Judo Championship in Tel Aviv, on April 27, 2018. (Roy Alima/Flash90)
March 26, 2021, 7:53 pm
Israel said set to host World Judo Championships
Judo Association given choice between hosting in 2024 or 2025, newspaper says; event likely to take place in Tel Aviv arena
Iranian-born Mongolian judoka Saeid Mollaei (L), wearing the silver medal, greets Uzbekistan's gold medal winner Sharofiddin Boltaboev after the finals of the men's under 81kg category of Tel Aviv Grand Slam 2021 in Tel Aviv, on February 19, 2021. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)
February 19, 2021, 8:49 pm
Winning silver in Tel Aviv, Iranian judoka ‘will never forget Israeli kindness’
After fleeing his country, Saeid Mollaei, who now competes for Mongolia, makes historic achievement for an Iranian in Israel; Israeli Tohar Butbul wins bronze
By ToI Staff
Timna Nelson Levy after her victory in the Tel Aviv Judo Grand Slam (Screenshot: Twitter)
February 19, 2021, 11:13 am
Israeli judoka Timna Nelson Levy wins gold medal at Tel Aviv Grand Slam
Defeats French rival in less than 18 seconds in the under-57 kilogram weight class; Gili Cohen takes silver in under-52 kg finals; exiled Iranian judo champ set to compete Friday
By ToI Staff
Moshe Ponte, the chair of the Israel Judo Association meets Iranian dissident Saeid Mollaei at Ben Gurion Airport on February 14, 2021 (Screenshot: Channel 12)
February 16, 2021, 2:05 pm
Israelis grapple with massive judo tourney, held with skies still mostly closed
Amid criticism over risk posed by Tel Aviv Grand Slam contest, health minister says he is ‘personally’ hurt by footage of federation head shaking contestant’s bare hand
By ToI Staff and Stuart Winer
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Illustrative: A judo event held in Tel Aviv in 2020. (Flash90)
February 15, 2021, 3:11 pm
With Israel’s skies closed, 600 athletes arrive for judo contest, drawing rebuke
While citizens can’t return home due to COVID fears, expert says hosting judokas from all over the world creates unnecessary risk of letting in infections, mutated strains
By Stuart Winer
Iranian judoka Saeid Mollaei at an undisclosed southern city of Germany, September 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
February 14, 2021, 4:59 pm
Exiled Iranian judo champion lands in Israel for Tel Aviv tourney
Saeid Mollaei, who was forced to throw fight in order to avoid facing Israel’s Sagi Muki in 2019 championship, will represent Mongolia at Grand Slam competition this week
By ToI Staff
Israeli world champion judoka Sagi Muki, right, and Iranian champion Saeid Mollaei embrace at the Paris Grand Slam, February 10, 2020, in an Instagram photo posted online by Muki. (Instagram screen capture)
February 11, 2020, 5:57 pm
Israeli judoka makes ‘friend for life’ with Iran champ who fled country
World champion Sagi Muki posts photo with Iranian judoka Saeid Mollaei at Paris Grand Slam, hopes he will visit Israel
By ToI Staff
Iranian judoka Saeid Mollaei reacts after losing to Belgium's Matthias Casse in the semifinal fight in the men's under-81 kilogram category during the 2019 Judo World Championships in Tokyo, on August 28, 2019. (Charly Triballeau/AFP)
October 26, 2019, 4:05 pm
Judo ban for Iran over refusal to face Israelis a wake-up call ahead of Olympics
With Israelis increasingly winning top spots in judo and taekwondo, another discipline in which Iran is a traditional force, the regime’s Israel-ban is becoming divisive
By AFP and ToI Staff
Saeid Mollaei in 2018 (YouTube screenshot)
September 1, 2019, 1:26 pm
Judo chief threatened to kick Iran out of Olympics if Israel snubbed — report
Enraged Marius Vizer called Iran’s Rouhani after learning of pressure on judoka Saeid Mollaei to throw match to avoid facing Israel’s Sagi Muki, Army Radio says
By ToI Staff
Israeli judoka Gili Cohen (R) poses for a photo with coach Shani Hershko after winning the gold medal at the Grand Slam competition in Ekaterinburg, Russia on March 15, 2019. (Israel Judo Association)
March 16, 2019, 8:17 pm
Two Israeli judokas win gold medals at Grand Slam in Russia
Gili Cohen defeats Spanish opponent in the women’s under-52 kilogram category; Sagi Muki beats Japanese rival in under-81 kilogram division
By ToI Staff
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