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Educational Material

Maccabiah 2017 Education & Culture Department aims to provide a personally, permanently significant, and exciting Jewish-Zionist experience, based on our common Jewish Values, for Maccabiah athletes to carry in their hearts back to their communities, and to connect the Israeli population to those Jewish Communities represented by the athletes coming from all over the world.

The following materials in this website describe Maccabi World Union, the Maccabi Movement, various Maccabi heroes, and the Maccabiah as an idea which transformed the Jewish People since 1932.

About the Maccabees by Ussishkin

About the Maccabees by Ussishkin

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Max Nordau - Biography

Max Nordau - Biography

Read more: Max Nordau - Biography
Maccabiah Stories

Maccabiah Stories

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MWU - Description & Ideology

MWU - Description & Ideology

Read more: MWU - Description & Ideology
Maccabi in the Hearts & Minds of the Greatest Jewish Leaders of the 20th Century

Maccabi in the Hearts & Minds of the Greatest Jewish Leaders of the 20th Century

Read more: Maccabi in the Hearts & Minds of the Greatest Jewish Leaders of the 20th Century
Maccabi Heroism During The Holocaust

Maccabi Heroism During The Holocaust

Read more: Maccabi Heroism During The Holocaust
Judith Deutsch Haspel

Judith Deutsch Haspel

Read more: Judith Deutsch Haspel
Fredy Hirsch

Fredy Hirsch

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Egon Gonda Redlich

Egon Gonda Redlich

Read more: Egon Gonda Redlich
Chanukah & Maccabim

Chanukah & Maccabim

Read more: Chanukah & Maccabim
A Tale of Heroism in Maccabi Tzair Israel

A Tale of Heroism in Maccabi Tzair Israel

Read more: A Tale of Heroism in Maccabi Tzair Israel