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	July/August 2017 TIB Newsletter Yaniv Kovalski, Stonehill College Yaniv just started playing football in Israel a few years ago, in a program that is sponsored by Robert Kraft, owner of the NFL’s New England Patriots. Growing to a height of 6’3” and weighing 285 lbs., he found one small school that would take a chance on an Israeli trained football player. Yaniv will be redshirted this year, but will start to play as a lineman in the fall of 2018. A terrific feature article came out recently about Yaniv in The Washington Post, and we will closely follow his career at Stonehill College. Adva Cohen, Iowa Central Adva is the top middle distance women’s runner in Israel, currently the 3000m women’s steeplechase and 1500m champion and also the all-time women’s record holder in the 3000m steeplechase. She will start school with the Junior College National Champions, Iowa Central. Daniel Butael, University of Michigan Daniel competes in both the triple jump and long jump, having represented Israel in the Maccabiah Games and in European meets. He is set to start school at the University of Michigan. Go Blue!
	Visit our new Facebook page in Hebrew through the great effort by our summer intern and Rutgers University tennis player Lee Levy. https://www.facebook.com/theisraelbridge/
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BACK TO SCHOOL ISSUE - WELCOME TO THE CLASS OF 2021!

Nitzan Lasry, Indiana University

Nitzan is a women’s volleyball player from Tel Mond in Israel. She had the fortune to play for the Israel National Women’s Volleyball team and the legendary coach Arie Selinger in the past couple of years. She plays the setter position, joining Rutgers sophomore Galia Nankin as the second Israeli women’s volleyball player in the tough Big 10 league.

Check out Indiana University's announcement of Nitzan's signing at this link.

Daniel Cukierman – University of Southern California

Daniel is a dedicated and modest tennis player who made a breakthrough in last year’s Israeli Men’s Tennis Championships, reaching the final round. After reaching the world ranking of 525, he was recruited by many of the top tennis schools in the US and finally chose to attend USC.

Zohar Shikler, University of Arizona

After competing for Israel in the 50m Free in the 2016 Olympics, Zohar decided to continue her swimming career in college. She is an Israeli women’s record-holder in both the 200m and 400m relays, and will follow fellow Israeli Olympian swimmer Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or to the University of Arizona.

Gilron Tsabkevich (pictured at right), Princeton University

Gilron is the current Israeli champion in the long jump, and won the gold medal in this event this summer at the Maccabiah Games (shown above). He is also a brilliant student, managing to get one of the highest scores by any Israeli athlete on the SAT and TOEFL tests which helped him get into Princeton. Gilron's announcement on the Princeton University athletics site is at this link.

ABOUT THE ISRAELBRIDGE

Who We Are:
Ross Greenstein, Former Scholarship for Athletes President and Founder of The Israel Bridge

Dan Aronovic, Head of Operations, The Israel Bridge

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

Current activities:
Finding athletic scholarships for deserving Israeli athletes in the US. We have helped over 130 athletes to attend schools like Princeton University, The University of Michigan, The University of Minnesota (Twin Cities), Tulane, Ohio State, UCLA, USC, Northwestern, UNLV, Arizona, Rutgers, San Diego State, University of San Francisco, University of Washington and many others.

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