Israel Active

In a special session at the Knesset, UK Ambassador to Israel Matthew Gould and Sebastian Coe invited Israeli athletes to take part in the greatest show on earth.

Video of some of this year’s acts, including Dixieland Jazz and a ballet performed on 10-meter flexible poles.

Two Israelis have been organising a two-week music fest in Perugia, Umbria for the last six years.

Aged 76, Israel’s Teddy Kaplan was tons better than his nearest rival at the 2011 European Masters Weightlifting Championships in Germany.

After his successful April concert, Gilberto Gil “The voice of Brazil” brings his full six-piece electric band to perform on July 24 at the Ra’anana Amphitheatre.

Yuval Oz, an Israeli performance artist, musician and acrobat, is producing a new form of live concert combining music, circus and dance.

More traditionally, Paul Simon gave his Tel Aviv audience a concert to remember.

Israelis Gidi Kliger and Eran Sela won the bronze medal at the 470 Class European sailing Championships in Helsinki. It was the second consecutive year that they won a European medal.

Tel Aviv’s all-night celebration this year was something special.

For professional kite-surfer Maciek Kozerski, a 26-year-old from Poland, this photo taken at the Sea of Galilee feat was not a miracle – rather the result of four rigorous days of wet practice.