Swimming

Olympic Committee of Israel honors fallen swimmer Eden Nimri

Eden Nimri, a captain in the IDF, was not only a fighter but also a talented swimmer who competed with Israel’s youth national team.

Fallen soldier and former swimmer Eden Nimri
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Israeli community builds world's only mechanical-divide swimming pool

Pre-historic giant sturgeon fish at Hilton Head.

Rare prehistoric Atlantic sturgeon washes ashore in South Carolina

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Israel marks World Drowning Prevention day after devastating day at seas

In 2019, an estimated 236,000 people died from drowning, prompting the General Assembly to actively raise awareness to “the third leading cause of unintentional injury death”.

Australian ambassador Paul Griffiths and Israel Life Saving Federation team, World Drowning Prevention Day 2021, Herzliya

Israel’s Gorbenko into 2 swimming finals

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Anastasia Gorbenko competes yesterday in the 200m Individual Medley heats, from which she advanced to this morning’s final

Making a splash with Israeli Olympian Anastasia Gorbenko

At only 17 years of age, Gorbenko was able to meet the Olympic criteria to punch her ticket to the Games which is a huge accomplishment at such a young age.

Israeli swimmer Anastasia Gorbenko

World's deepest pool for diving opens in Dubai

The pool, which holds the equivalent of six Olympic swimming pools, has been verified by Guinness World Records as the world's deepest swimming pool for diving.

A view of a freediver rising to the pool surface at the Deep Dive Dubai, the deepest pool in the world, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, in this handout image taken in July 202 J1

Catalan TV host criticizes Israel during swimming competition

The comments come off the heels of the IDF's Operation Guardian of the Walls and heightened tensions among Israeli Jews and Palestinians.

Swimming race [Illustrative]

Queen Esther has a new name - opinion

Hungary has been among very few countries that were vocal in giving support to Israel during the recent two weeks of Hamas rockets.

Swimming race [Illustrative]

Otter family invades apartment block to go swimming in pool in Singapore

Singapore has a thriving population of otters, which swam across the Johor Straits from Malaysia in the 1990s. They now live all over the island.

Otters take over a pool in Singapore

Grapevine February 26, 2021: Back in the pool

Movers and shakers in Israeli society

Swimming pool (Illustrative)

WATCH:Czech free-diver breaks ice-swim world record

"This will do," Vencl said after emerging from his minute-and-half swim in water measured at temperatures of 3 degrees Celsius and pumping his fist in celebration.

Czech free-diver David Vencl reacts after breaking the new world record in under-ice swimming in a lake at a former quarry in the village of Lahost near the city of Teplice, Czech Republic, February 23, 2021.

The Hana Greenfield Memorial Swim

This annihilated Jewish community had a life and a history, and we wanted it to be remembered and not erased, remembered and not forgotten.

Murray and Hana Greenfield’s granddaughters Shirona and Daniela at the second annual swim in 2019