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Screen capture from video of Israel's under-20 women's team celebrating their victory of Belgium to earn a place in the FIBA Basketball championship, July 11, 2026. (FIBA Basketball)
July 12, 2026, 4:05 pm
Israel’s under-20 women’s basketball team makes history with first European final
EuroBasket squad already notched a first by reaching semis; 78-69 victory over Belgium sets up squad for championship game against France on Sunday
By ToI Staff
Israeli climber Ayala Kerem in competition in this undated photo. (Jan Virt/IFSC)
May 5, 2026, 10:55 am
High ambition: Rising star eyes Olympic ascent for Israeli climbing
24-year-old Ayala Kerem believes she can represent the Jewish state at the 2028 LA Games — and that an Olympic push could help raise interest in the emerging field
By David Wiseman
Illustrative: Lina Glushko of Israel plays during the WTA 125 Polish Open 2024 tennis tournament in Warsaw, Poland, July 25, 2024. (Foto Olimpik/NurPhoto via Reuters)
March 21, 2026, 1:49 pm
Israel drops out of top women’s tennis tournament in Bosnia over security concerns
Decision to give up on April’s Billie Jean King Cup takes into account travel to Muslim-majority country and participation of teams from Egypt and Morocco, Israeli tennis body says
By ToI Staff
Iranian climber Elnaz Rekabi competing during the women boulder finals of the Asian Championships of the IFSC in Seoul, South Korea. (Photo by Rhea KANG / INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF SPORT CLIMBING / AFP)
March 13, 2025, 5:46 pm
Climber leaves Iran after competing without hijab at height of protests
Elnaz Rekabi largely vanished from public view after declining to cover her hair at 2022 event overseas as demonstrations raged against the Islamic Republic’s dress code for women
By AFP
Yarden Garzon of the Indiana Hoosiers playing against the Lipscomb Bisons at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Indiana, November 19, 2023. (Gretta Cohoon/Indiana Athletics)
April 5, 2024, 4:46 pm
Full court press: Rising NCAA basketball star Yarden Garzon proudly reps Israel
The 20-year-old Indiana Hoosiers guard from Ra’anana uses platform to dispel ‘fake news’ about her home country as anti-Zionist rhetoric soars amid ongoing war in Gaza
By Ed Klajman
Iranian boxer Sadaf Khadem (L) is coached by combat organizer Mahyar Monshipour (R), an Iranian-born former super bantamweight world champion, during a match in Royan, western France, on April 13, 2019. Khadem now resides in France (MEHDI FEDOUACH / AFP / File)
September 13, 2023, 10:38 pm
Dissidents call to ban Iran from Olympics for discriminating against women
Nobel Prize winner and prominent former athletes who defected send letter to International Olympic Committee
By AFP
NWSL commissioner Jessica Berman holds the trophy during NWSL Cup Final game between Kansas City Current and Portland Thorns FC at Audi Field on October 29, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Brad Smith/ISI Photos/Getty Images)
September 11, 2023, 2:23 am
US Women’s Soccer League head Jessica Berman draws on her Judaism to level the field
As she works to grow her sport, the Jewish day school alum from Brooklyn is racking up victories in her battle for unity and equality — starting with equal pay for female players
By jacob gurvis
Athena Center's Moran Messica-Eidelman, Ministry of Sport official Nurit Sharvit and Peres Center's Tami Hay participating in a panel on the future of women's soccer in Israel on June 13, 2023. (David Azagury/US Embassy Jerusalem)
July 14, 2023, 8:06 pm
In Jaffa, athletes and social advocates kick around ideas to improve women’s soccer
Peres Center hosts event a month ahead of the FIFA Women’s World Cup finals; speakers say unequal funding puts them at a disadvantage compared to men
By Charlie Summers
Illustrative: Kimia Alizadeh Zenoorin of Iran celebrates after winning the bronze medal in Taekwondo at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 18, 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)
May 7, 2023, 7:24 pm
Head of Iran’s sports federation resigns after outcry over women running unveiled
State news agency says Hashem Siami quit ‘due to the controversies that arose’ after photographs circulated of women competing without a hijab at event in Shiraz
By AFP
Chelsey Goldberg (R), captain of the Maccabi USA women's ice hockey team, posing for a photo. (Joya Create)
July 16, 2022, 11:30 am
After being iced for years, women’s hockey teams finally lace up at Maccabiah Games
Following a nearly decade-long effort, Southern California Jewish Sports Hall-of-Famer Chelsey Goldberg helps field three teams to their inaugural tournament
By Ethan Freedman
JoAnn Mason Parker, once the wunderkind of competitive pool, is looking to make a comeback — and she's being inducted into the Northern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. (Parker Hill/J. The Jewish News of Northern California/ via JTA)
November 8, 2021, 3:26 am
Billiards legend and former Jewish educator JoAnn Mason Parker eyes pro comeback
Inducted into California’s Jewish Sports Hall of Fame last month, the one-time prodigy mulls bringing her aggressive style back to the professional circuit, after a 26-year hiatus
By Gabe Stutman
Jori Epstein (L) with Holocaust survivor Max Glauben. Epstein wrote a book about Glauben's story after meeting at a Dallas synagogue. (Courtesy of Epstein/ via JTA)
July 6, 2021, 2:48 am
This Jewish sports writer doesn’t work on Shabbat — so she covers the NFL
At just 26, Jori Epstein is writing about the Dallas Cowboys in a male-dominated industry — and she’s penned the biography of a Holocaust survivor, to boot
By Alan Zeitlin
Tamara Statman thinks the team has a good chance of making the Olympics. (Courtesy of the Israeli Softball Association/via JTA)
July 5, 2019, 5:47 am
Israeli softball is building a women’s ‘dream team’ for the 2020 Olympics
Thirteen US Jewish college students and recent graduates arrived in Israel at the beginning of the month to train for the European Championships in the Czech Republic
By Marcy Oster
The full roster for the United States Women’s National Team that is heading to France for the 2019 World Cup, shown just after a friendly match against Mexico at Red Bull Arena in Harrison, New Jersey, May 26, 2019. (Ira L. Black/Corbis via Getty Images, JTA)
June 7, 2019, 5:30 pm
7 Jewish fun facts about the 2019 Women’s World Cup
Tribal connections at competition starting Friday include over-the-top announcers, Holocaust legacy stories and some love from the US Supreme Court’s own RBG
By Emily Burack
Iran's Sadaf Khadem (L), the first Iranian woman to contest an official boxing fight, is designated winner in her match against France's Anne Chauvin (R) on April 13, 2019 in Royan, western France. (Mehdi Fedouach/AFP)
April 17, 2019, 11:29 pm
Female Iranian boxer defects to France after win
Iran issues arrest warrant for Sadaf Khadem, country’s top woman boxer, who decides to pursue pugilistic career in West
By AFP
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