Agnes Keleti will be awarded the Israel Prize for Sport and Physical Culture this year, Minister of Education Naftali Bennett announced on Tuesday. Bennett affirmed the recommendation of the prize committee headed by Yael Arad, Israel’s first Olympic medalist from the 1992 Barcelona Games. Other members of the committee included Paralympic Games medalist Ron Bolotin, [...]
Gyorgy Szepesi, the legendary radio reporter and sports manager, once a basketball player for the VAC, stood for a speech about Jewish Hungarian sports legends at the Israeli Cultural Institute. Many managers and athletes participated in this event, including all time women’s champion Agnes Keleti and champion Gyorgy Gedo. The president of the VAC, [...]
Agnes Keleti, five time Olympic winner and champion gymnast received the Prima Primissima award this December. The Olympian is a symbol and role model to the Jewish Athletic world. She has always been active in the programs of the Maccabi VAC. Recently, she campaigned in support of the 2019 European Maccabi Games being held in [...]
In 2014, the Maccabi VAC and the Balint Jewish Community house hosted their first co-organized program series. The series is made up of 6 talks, all leading up to the start of the European Maccabi games in Berlin. It is also an opportunity to learn about promising new Hungarian Jewish athletes, who are or [...]
Maccabi VAC initiated to eternalize the hand prints of great Jewish Hungarian sportsmen. The prints will be made by the ceramist, Klára Kósa. The series will be presented in an exhibition. The first athlete who gave her hand to this sport art project was the five-time Olympic champion, Ágnes Keleti.
The Maccabi VAC's 18th cup was organised by our gymnastics department. This was the third time we invited our Israeli friends as guests! This year, we organised the cup with 6 participating countries and almost 80 gymnasts. Ours is one of the largest women's competitions. This was the first year we presented to our gymnasts [...]
