What is the most popular sport in Israel?

Wrong - Basketball was invented in the United States - in Springfield, Massachusetts - this is a well documented fact. The creater though - Dr. James Naismith - was born and grew up in Canada and the game was inspired by a game he played as a child in Canada (Duck on a Rock) - but it's invention is all American - see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basketball#History and it is due to this the Basketball Hall of Fame is located in Springfield, Massachusetts - see: http://www.hoophall.com/

The most popular sport in Israel is Football (soccer) and Israel won its first gold medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics in Men's Sailboarding http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_at_the_Olympic...

The best Israeli sports team based in its success Tel Aviv Maccabi basketball club http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maccabi_Tel_Aviv_B.C.

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The most popular sports in Israel are football, basketball, running and swimming. One must also realize that Israel is a very sports-oriented country.

Football and basketball are the most popular with The Israel Football Association, which is host to a number of teams in the league. They are extremely popular and play in Europe, America, Latin America and Asia. They have been in the world cup in 1970. Basketball is considered the second most popular sport in Israel under the Israeli Basketball Association. The Israeli basketball team of Maccabi Tel Aviv is among the top teams in Europe, and has won the European championship 5 times, in 1977, 1981, 2001, 2004 and 2005.

Also, Israel has participated in every Olympic Games since 1950, following the Holocaust. Since then, numerous Israeli's have won many awards in the Olympic games. Gal Fridman won the first Olympic gold in the 1994 games for Windsurfing. Hope this helps!

Definitely, soccer, but basketball is a close second place. Israel has won several Olympic medal but only one gold at the last Olympics Gal Friedman won a gold medal for surfing.

It is arguable, but I'd say Basketball first with soccer close second, even though I personally prefer soccer. Unfortunatelly, contrary to someone saying that Israel is very sport oriented country I would say that Israel at the moment does not promote sports as it should. Unless you are world class star like Averbuch, Arik Zeevi and such you can not make good living in Israeli sport

Soccer

in contradiction to what "shanti_g" said soccer is the most popular sport in Israel. basketball is second in his popularty

and it really depends were you come from. i live in Jerusalem and here soccer is more popular then basketball in other cities things can be different.

and yes Israelis won a gold medal in the Olympics but i cant reamember when or in what.

Massachusetts created Basketball.

in terms of popularity : basket ball is our main national sport.

every major city or regional council got atleast one famous club.

but when it comes to national pride it's about maccabi tel-aviv.

the team is uniting israel diverse fan clubs under the maccabi flag.

representing israel in euro-league with great success , winnig the last two event's in a row with a supreme power and popularity.

Soccer.

Gal friedman - in surfing or something like that

the most popular sport is basketball or soccer

I think soccer more