The Ministry of Culture and Sports announced today (Sunday) the winners of the Lifetime Achievement Award led by the Wingate Institute, as part of the institute’s 65th anniversary celebrations.
Miki Berkowitz, a former basketball player for the Israeli national team, won the athlete’s burst. Orna Ostfeld, the women’s basketball coach, Paralympic swimming coach Yaakov Beninson and Maurice Samadja, one of the founders of judo in Israel, also won.
Izzy Shretzky won the award for the manager in the field of sports, while Baruch Shapira, founder of the Negev Athletics Association, won the award for the educator. The awards will be presented this coming April.
Minister of Culture and Sports, Trooper CorpsReferred to the award: “Warm congratulations to the winners of the Lifetime Achievement Award in Sports awarded this year for the first time. The Lifetime Achievement Award in Sports expresses the deep appreciation we have for the men and women who dedicated their lives to sports and sports “Significant to Israeli sports in many blessed years. We have wonderful people in Israeli sports and I am happy for the opportunity to stop for a moment and say a big thank you on behalf of us all.”