This morning (Sunday), the winners of the Lifetime Achievement Award in Sports of the Ministry of Culture and Sports, which will be awarded as part of the 65th anniversary celebrations to the Wingate Institute, were announced.
The purpose of the award is to honor the work and contribution of the people who have influenced the sport for years.
The award committee is headed by Eric Pinto, chairman of the National Sports Council and former CEO of Bank Hapoalim.
Its other members are Yaki Enoch, Wingate Institute Chairman, Nurit Dabush, Former Second Authority Chairman, and Paralympic Medalist Inbal Pizarro.
Athlete:
Former Israeli and Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball player Miki Berkovich, due to being a pioneer and inspirer in sports and Israeli society. Mickey is a basketball player with many achievements, including two European Cups, 16 championships and 13 state cups. Inspired by the leading sports and social bodies in Israel and Europe.
Coach:
Maurice Samadja, a judo coach and one of the founders of the competitive judo industry in Israel, due to being a groundbreaking coach who has raised many generations of Olympic medalists, world champions and more.
Morris is one of the founders of the judo infrastructure that has developed and turned the State of Israel into a world judo power.
In addition to being an accomplished coach, he acted as an educator and put others first when he helped with great concern and without compensation for dozens of at-risk youth in the southern region.
Coach:
Orna Ostfeld, former coach of AS Ramat Hasharon, due to being a basketball player and a groundbreaking coach in the women's basketball industry. A role model for generations of athletes. Throughout her years as a coach she has won six championships and six trophies. The women in general and the athletes in particular, her struggles have changed the face of women's basketball in Israel, as well as the lives of quite a few basketball players who played under a baton.
Orna Ostfeld, Photo: Ami Shumen
Olympic:
Jacob Beninson, coach of the Israeli Paralympic swimming team, for being a groundbreaking coach who has raised many generations of Paralympic medalists, world champions and more.
Since immigrating to Israel about twenty years ago, he has dedicated his professional and personal life to swimming and the Paralympic swimmers.
Work for the rehabilitation of potential athletes, which has increased to identify more from rehabilitative hospitals to placing them on the Paralympic podium as champions.
Yaakov broke new ground in training and integrating athletes with disabilities and a variety of disabilities through swimming.
His trainees have achieved exceptional achievements, including the eight Paralympic medals from the last Olympics in Tokyo.
Medals that brought great pride to the citizens of the State of Israel.
Ami Dadon and coach Jacob Bininson.
Photo: Ron Bolotin,
Educator / Local Authority:
The veteran athletics coach and founder of the Negev Athletic Association, Baruch Shapira, due to being a physical education teacher, a local authority figure and athletics coach is inspiring and has been an example and role model for over 30 years.
His many years of social, sporting and educational activities have affected generations of the children of the city of Beersheba.
Over the years he has become one of the leaders in the athletics industry in the country.
The use that Baruch has made and is making of sports as an agent for social change is extraordinary in its importance and has allowed him over the years to influence many boys and girls and girls in particular.
Sports manager:
The owner of the KS football club, Izzy Sheretzky, for his many years of contribution and being a visionary who influenced and changed the face of the city of Kiryat Shmona while doing significant and extensive social work. Through the vision, determination and investment, you managed to lead a modest club to miraculous successes, including winning a sensational championship and winning the state cup. And a precarious economic situation.
Izzy Shretzky, Photo: Ginny Agency
The chairman of the Football Association, Oren Hasson, greeted: "With a clear vision, determination, unlimited investment (material and above all value) and adherence to the goal, Izzy Shretzky was educated to help the city of Kiryat Shmona through its football team to create good news, form an identity, inflate breasts Proudly, to place generations of young actors in the glorious youth department he has built, and to lead to winning titles that are considered almost impossible for such a humble settlement from the geographical, social, economic and cultural periphery of the State of Israel.
"Shretzky's long-term work for Kiryat Shmona is much broader than just the football club and extends to many areas of life.
It teaches tremendous commitment, philanthropy, vision and an extraordinary connection between owner, club, city and residents.
"Whoever chose to do hundreds of kilometers every day to cultivate a football club at the northern end of the country is also someone who, in doing so, brought him closer to the center of being and consciousness without having to move even an inch south."
Minister of Culture and Sports, Hili Trooper: "Warm congratulations to the winners of the Lifetime Achievement Award in Sports awarded for the first time this year. The Lifetime Achievement Award in Sports expresses the deep appreciation we have for the men and women who dedicated their lives to sports values "To those who have made a significant contribution to Israeli sports through many blessed years. We have wonderful people in Israeli sports and I am happy for the opportunity to stop for a moment and say a big thank you on behalf of us all."
The chairman of the selection committee, Eric Pinto: "Nearly 100 names of sportsmen and women came to the committee, all of them were worthy and worthy, but in the end we had to choose the most worthy. Through the committee we became acquainted with rich Israeli sports culture and I have no doubt some of the names we examined They will also win in the coming years.
Director General of the Ministry of Culture and Sports Raz Froelech: "The awarding of the Lifetime Achievement Award for the first time this year is the beginning of a wonderful tradition for Israeli sports.
Chairman of the Wingate Institute Public Council, Yaki Enoch: "The Wingate Institute is the home of Israeli sports, so it only makes sense that it would be the one to award the Israeli sports award.
We are proud to lead this wonderful enterprise and I personally was happy to be part of such an important committee, one that commemorates the contribution of wonderful women and men.
But the biggest prize is the imprint they left on girls and boys who followed the inspiration they gave. "
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