The Seventh World Maccabiah Games, with entrants from more than 30 countries, will open Monday for nine days. The contests will be held at Ramat Gan.
The American contingent of 197 athletes will be the largest overseas group, second in size only to Israel’s entries. The first overseas team to arrive was the 45-man Argentine contingent, landing at Haifa yesterday. The 90-man British team, the 16-man Austrian group and the 74-member South African group arrived last night.
(The American team left New York for Israel this afternoon on three El-Al planes. The American group, headed by Max J. Lovell, its chairman, and Haskell Cohen, mission chief, both of New York, is the largest in its history; The team managers are Lt. Phil Cohen, of Philadelphia, a retired U.S. Marine officer; and Marvin Blumenthal, of Houston.)
A team of non-Jews from Poland also will come to Israel but will not compete in the games, which are open only to Jews. The Polish athletes will present exhibitions.
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