After devastating razor-thin miss of spot at Beijing Games, Israeli-American Olympic skeleton veteran already has 2026 in his sights: ‘This mission is not done’
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This is happening over the skies of Tel Aviv right now and has been happening over the skies of southern Israel for the past 48 hours. The coloured tracers you see is that of Israel’s missile defence system called the Iron Dome. It detects a hostile projectile and intercepts it mid flight knocking it out of the air. I unfortunately witnessed it live when it protected my family in 2014 but fortunate for Israel’s ingenuity and commitment to protecting all of it’s citizens. The Iron Dome is 90% effective but 10% still get through as well there is a significant amount of shrapnel that falls from the skies when a missile is intercepted so the danger is st
Former NBA player Omri Casspi shared words of encouragement Tuesday for his fellow Israeli basketball player and Washington Wizards forward.
Turning to business, Edelman was accepted into the Yale School of Management, hoping to pursue an MBA. But he was soon back on the ice, this time as a bobsledder because, as he put it, “I still owe Israel my entire existence and identity.”
He had his first exposure to bobsledding in 2014 as a breakman, responsible for stopping the sled, and was a bobsled driver in 2019. Edelman recruited his Druze teammates Moran Nijem and cousins Amir Fawarsy and Ward Fawarsy, who all play for Israel’s national rugby team. As bobsledders, they must run alongside the four-person carriage, pushing it to achieve maximum speed. When it builds momentum down a narrow, iced track, the riders jump in Edelman the driver in front, followed by the brakeman in back.