1932 Maccabiah Games - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The 1932 Maccabiah Games were the first ever held during the British Mandate of Palestine. The games were opened by Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv , officially Tel Aviv-Yafo , is the second most populous city in Israel, with a population of 404,400 on a land area of . The city is located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline in west-central Israel. It is the largest and most populous city in the metropolitan area of Gush Dan, with...

Mayor Meir Dizengoff

Meir Dizengoff

Meir Dizengoff was a Zionist politician and the first mayor of Tel Aviv.-Biography:Meir Dizengoff was born in 1861 in the village of Akimovici near Orgeyev, Bessarabia. In 1878, his family moved to Kishinev, where he graduated from high school and studied at the polytechnic school...

, who rode through the streets of Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv

on a white horse. The opening ceremony witnessed the release of 120 carrier pigeons, 10 pigeons for each of the 12 tribes of Israel, whose mission was to send to the world news of the opening of the first Maccabiah games.

Almost 400 athletes from 18 countries participated, including over 60 athletes from Arab

Arab

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countries such as Syria

Syria

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and Egypt

Egypt

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Participating communities

The number in parentheses indicates the number of participants that community contributed.

Lebanon
Lebanon
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(10)

Medal count

1	Poland	-	-	-	-
2	Austria	-	-	-	-
3	United States	13	-	-	-
4	Czechoslovakia	-	-	-	-
5	Egypt	-	-	-	-
6	Germany	-	-	-	-
7		1	-	-	-

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