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Israelis win debating championships again

Posted on January 12, 2020

For the 3rd time, an Israeli team has won the World Universities Debate Championship. It was the first Israeli women’s team to win, defeating 750 international contestants in the English Second Language (ESL) category, in Bangkok, Thailand. https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Israelis-take-the-Gold-defeat-750-people-at-World-Debating-Championship-613457

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Debating champions

Posted on August 12, 2018

Israelis won the European Universities Debating Championship in Serbia. Noam Dahan and Tom Manor won the main competition, beating teams from Oxford and Cambridge Universities. Amichay Even-Chen and Ido Kotler won the “English as a Second Language” category. https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Sports/Israeli-teams-defeat-top-European-universities-in-debating-564308

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Success at English debating championships

Posted on February 14, 2016

At the 2016 World University Debating Championship in Thessaloniki, Greece, Israel’s Ayal Hayut-man won Best Speaker at English as a Second Language with partner Dan Lahav as runner-up. The two reached the semi-final stage of the Open Finals – an … Continue reading →

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European debating champions

Posted on August 16, 2015

Stav Singer and Iddan Golomb from Tel Aviv University, won the gold trophy in the English as a second language category at the European Universities Debating Championship in Vienna. Six Israeli teams successfully fought through to join 700 competitors in … Continue reading →

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Israeli brothers crowned world-debating champions

Posted on January 8, 2012

Omer and Sella Nevo won in the category of English as a Second Language, securing the title for Israel for the third year in a row. “Having students from Pakistan or Malaysia and Jordan congratulate you, and being able to … Continue reading →

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Israeli debating students compete in Indonesia

Posted on September 3, 2017

StandWithUs sponsored the 2017 Israeli High School Debate Team which recently competed in the 29th annual World Schools Debating Championship in Bali, in (Muslim) Indonesia. The team finished 13th in the world, winning 6 out of 8 initial debates. http://www.standwithus.com/news/article.asp?id=5410

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World champion debaters

Posted on February 10, 2019

Israeli success at debating championships (see here) continues. Roy Schulman and Elaye Karstadt from Jerusalem ‘s Hebrew University won the 2019 World University Debating Championship in the English Second-Language category. The contest was hosted by the University of Cape Town. … Continue reading →

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Israel wins the debate

Posted on June 24, 2018

Did you hear about the fascinating debate between two humans and an IBM computer, that many said the computer won?  Did you hear or read any of the global media organizations (e.g. BBC) say that it was an IBM Israel … Continue reading →

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University debate winners

Posted on July 21, 2019

A Tel Aviv University debating team won the European Round Robin (ERR), an exclusive university-level debate competition in Warsaw, Poland. The winning pair, Tom Manor and Noam Dahan beat 15 other teams – most of them previously European or World … Continue reading →

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