Overview
In time for the 2025 Maccabiah Games, this picture book biography tells the origin story of the third-largest international sporting event and the unique problem-solving creator Yosef Yekutieli employed to make his dream possible.
In 1912, 15-year-old Yosef Yekutieli listened to radio broadcasts from the Stockholm Olympics and hatched an idea: an Olympic-style competition for Jewish athletes from around the globe in the brand-new city of Tel Aviv.
People initially didn''t take him seriously, but that wouldn''t stop Yosef. For the next two decades, he worked to make this idea a reality. There was no stadium, pool, or running track anywhere in British Mandate Palestine. But Yosef wasnt deterred.
There was one big problem left: there was no easy way to tell athletes about the games!
The solution: Motorcycles. Riding thousands of miles, over mountains and through deserts, motorcycle brigades announced the games to the world Jewish community. In 1932, the Maccabiah Games were born.
- | Author: Deborah Bodin Cohen, Andre Ceolin, Kerry Olitzky
- | Publisher: Behrman House Inc.,U.S.
- | Publication Date: Jul 01, 2025
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- | Binding: Hardback
- | ISBN-13: 9781681156958
- | ISBN-10: 1681156954
