Jerusalem Report

Hoops diplomacy

One of the country’s most famous basketball stars, Tal Brody, is taking on a new role to help Israel look good abroad.

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Photo by: OURIA TADMOR
One of Israel’s most prominent athletes, American-born basketball star Tal Brody became famous for uttering two sentences on a wintry evening in a small Belgian town called Vitron in February, 1977.

An All-American basketball player at the University of Illinois in the early 1960s, Brody had just led Maccabi Tel Aviv to victory against the CSKA Moscow – the mighty Soviet Red Army team that had won the previous four European Cup titles.

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