Let's Welcome the New Athletes Who Will Start School in September 2011 

 Noam Laish, men's basketball player from Timrat, Israel, will be starting as a freshman at the University of Maine.  Noam played for the Israeli National Junior Team this summer in the European Championships.

Shay Sade, women's soccer player from Hod Hasharon, will be a freshman at Youngstown State University.  Shay finished her army service in 2010 and has been playing for the Israeli Women's National Team since the age of 17.

Nikita Soifer, a men's tennis player from Be'er Sheva, will enter Xavier University of Louisiana in September.  Nikita finished his army service at the end of 2010.  He has represented Israel at the European Championships as a junior, having been ranked #1 in Israel in the under 16 catagory.

Mary Malkin, a women's tennis player from Tel Aviv, is starting school in September at Northern Illinois University.  She joins Dor Amir, a men's tennis player there.  Mary finished her army service this month and will head straight to school in DeKalb, Ill.

Oran Tene, a men's soccer player from Pardesiyya, will be transferring from Wingate University in North Carolina to MidAmerica Nazarene University in Olathe, Kansas.  Oran plays the goalie position and should start for the team.  Oran finished his army service in 2010 and completed a semester at Wingate this Spring.

Dunja Al-Sous, a women's tennis player from East Jerusalem, will be transferring from Reedley College in California, a two year school, to Michigan Tech University.  Dunja had a great season at Reedley College, going 38-6 at the #3 position and finished her first year with a 3.875 GPA.

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Ross Greenstein, Scholarship for Athletes President and Founder of The Israel Bridge

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The Israel Bridge will work to be the largest resource for connecting and developing relationships between Israelis and Americans.

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Finding athletic scholarships for deserving Israeli athletes in the US and assisting them while they live in the US. We have over 50 athletes attending schools like Ohio State, UCLA, Maryland, UNLV, Arizona, Duke, Tulane, Rutgers, the University of San Francisco and many others.

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Israeli Swimmers Participate in World Championships

Guy Barnea 

Guy Barnea, Gal Nevo and Nimrod Shapira-Bar-On All Participate in World Swimming Championships for Israel        

                        BAD LUCK FOR GAL NEVO

Gal Nevo, recent graduate of Georgia Tech,  failed to reach his second straight World Championship final in his signature event, the 400m individual medley, only finishing 23rd overall in a time of 4:25.96 minutes after suffering from food poisoning the previous day.

Nevo, who had already secured his place in London by making the semis of the 200m IM, was told by the team doctor not to swim on Sunday.

Despite barely sleeping the previous night, he insisted on racing, only to run out of energy midway through the competition.

             NIMROD SHAPIRA BAR-OR GETS A BREAK

The University of Arizona's Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or wasn’t even supposed to take part in the swimming World Championships in Shanghai, China.

It was only two weeks ago that the 22-year-old received a special exemption to race in the worlds, despite recording his qualifying time of 1:48.48 minutes in the 200-meters freestyle in Croatia a day after the close of the registration deadline for Shanghai.

The Israel Swimming Association pleaded with world governing body FINA to allow Shapira Bar-Or to enter the event and it paid off on Monday when he became the first local swimmer to set the criteria for next summer’s London Olympics, advancing to the semifinals of the 200m free.

Shapira Bar-Or clocked a season- best time of 1:48.11m to progress to the semis from 12th position, before finishing in 15th place overall after recording a time of 1:48.59m in the evening race.

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