11th Ha'poel Games Medal – 1979

1979

Identifer: CJF - RFC2013151

Medium
Bronze

Topics
Jewish Sporting Events & Organizations

Description
The early Zionist pioneers in pre-Israel Palestine stressed physical fitness and exercise as an antidote to the stereo-typed pale, anemic Jew of the East European ghettos. From this philosophy came the Hapoel Games, a kind of workers' Olympics.

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