Akiva Halfon, Yoram Eyal, Eli Yifarah/Moreg Bitan
During the battles of the IDF soldiers in the Khan Yunis area, the paratrooper brigade carried out extensive searches to find weapons and ammunition. To the surprise of the soldiers, a trophy was found in one of the houses that was awarded in 1994 to the player Eli Yafarah from the Maccabi Maccabim Re'ot basketball team, by the late Gavri Gozli, Yu The head of the club, on the occasion of the team's promotion to the second league.
The trophy was found by Major Akiva Halfon, a sports enthusiast and activist, who began a search for the owner of the trophy from whose house the trophy disappeared in the late 1990s. With the help of a team from the World Jewish Sports Museum, the trophy was returned to its excited owner, who decided to display the trophy in a permanent display at the museum in the village of Maccabiah. Today, an exciting ceremony was held at the World Jewish Sports Museum to place the trophy and display it on permanent display in the museum.
Yoram Eyal, Chairman of the Board of the Jewish Sports Museum: "The found trophy is the first exhibit that will be shown in a special exhibition that will open soon as part of the Jewish Sports Museum on the subject of sports and war, "Iron Swords ". Outstanding athletes in many sports and die-hard fans of sports teams took part in the war. The memory of those who were murdered and killed in the events of October 7 and in the war will be commemorated in the exhibition."
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