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| Thousands enjoy musical performance at the Maccabiah games |
(Scroll down for video) The Maccabiah games concluded yesterday with a beautiful performance by top Israeli musicians, according to a report by the Tazpit News Agency.
The official closing show of the Maccabiah Games on Tuesday night, was a huge success with athletes and spectators alike at Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem. Thousands of athletes rocked to the tunes of Israeli bands and singers including Balkan Beat Box, The Young Professionals, Orphaned Land, Offer Nissim, Riff Cohen, and Infected Mushroom.
It was clear that for many of the overseas athletes, who came from over 70 countries, the Israeli songs were familiar, as athletes from across Europe, Canada and the USA could be seen singing along with Israel’s topnotch musicians, many of whom have achieved international success.
“This is awesome,” said one Dutch athlete to another when Infected Mushrooms’ Erez Eisen and Amit Duvdevani, who are based in Los Angeles, came on to perform their energetic trance-like beats to a clearly infected audience.
Maccabiah athletes could also be seen proudly sporting their medals as they talked and exchanged contact information with new friends during the closing show on Tuesday night.
Israel lead the way with the final gold medal count, followed by the United States, Canada, Australia and South Africa, which were the top five countries that won medals in the major sports event that had 9,000 competitors competing from across the world this year.
Maccabi USA was awarded with 196 medals, which had even Matisyahu showering the team praise via Twitter, tweeting: Wow! Macabbi USA bringing home 196 medals. Let's show them some love!
Elsewhere across the world, Jewish communities in countless countries celebrated their teams, experiencing the unique opportunity that the Maccabiah Games afforded in strengthening connections within the Jewish world and Israel.