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America Will Send 23 Athletes to Israel to Compete in World Maccabiah Games

September 15, 1950
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America will send a team of 36 athletee to Israel September 23 to compete in the Third World Maccabiah games, which have drawn contestants from 25 countries, it was announced today by Harry D. Henshel and Charles L. Ornstein, co-chairmen of the United States Committee for the 1950 Maccabiah. The squad will depart by plane. The games, patterned on the Olympics, will be conducted from September 27 through October 8.

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