| Noc: | ISR |
| Nocname: | Olympic Committee of Israel |
| Games: | Summer Olympics |
| Year: | 2024 |
| Location: | Paris, France |
| Website: | |
| Competitors: | 88 |
| Competitors Men: | 54 |
| Competitors Women: | 34 |
| Sports: | 16 |
| Events: | 67 |
| Flagbearer Open: | Peter Paltchik & Andrea Murez |
| Flagbearer Close: | Tom Reuveny & Romi Paritzki |
| Rank: | 41 |
| Gold: | 1 |
| Silver: | 5 |
| Bronze: | 1 |
| Appearances: | auto |
Israel competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024. This was the nation's 18th appearance at the Summer Olympics. Since Israel's debut in 1952, Israeli athletes have appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympic Games, other than the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, which it opted not to attend in accordance with the US-led boycott. It was Israel's most successful Olympic Games by number of medals.[1]
The participation of Israel in 2024 prompted calls from twenty-six French lawmakers,[2] [3] Palestinian, and other global sports organizations for sanctions against Israel and to prevent its participation due to the impact of the Israel–Hamas war on Palestinian athletes and sports facilities, but IOC President Thomas Bach confirmed this was never an issue for the IOC[4] and cautioned athletes against boycotts and discrimination. The president of the Olympic Committee of Israel, Yael Arad, assured that Israeli athletes would "100 per cent" be present, with safety measures in place.[5]
The judoka Peter Paltchik and swimmer Andrea Murez were chosen as the nation's flag bearers at the opening ceremony.[6]
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| Medal | Name | Sport | Event | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men's floor | |||||
| Ofir Shaham Diana Svertsov Adar Friedmann Romi Paritzki Shani Bakanov | |||||
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| Medals by gender | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gender | bgcolor=#f7f6a8 | bgcolor=#dce5e5 | bgcolor=#ffdab9 | Total | |||
| Male | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||
| Female | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 | |||
| Mixed | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Total | 1 | 5 | 1 | 7 | |||
The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games. Note that reserve athletes are not counted:
| width=180 | Sport | width=55 | Men | width=55 | Women | width=55 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Archery | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| Artistic swimming | 0 | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Athletics | 4 | 2 | 6 | ||||
| Badminton | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||
| Cycling | 3 | 1 | 4 | ||||
| Equestrian | 2 | 2 | 4 | ||||
| Fencing | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||
| Football | 18 | 0 | 18 | ||||
| Gymnastics | 1 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| Judo | 5 | 7 | 12 | ||||
| Sailing | 4 | 4 | 8 | ||||
| Shooting | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||
| Surfing | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Swimming | 12 | 6 | 18 | ||||
| Taekwondo | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Triathlon | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||
| Total | 54 | 34 | 88 |
See main article: article, Archery at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Archery at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Israel qualified two archers (one per gender) in the individual recurve and mixed team events, through the final release of the Olympic ranking for Paris 2024.[7]
| Athlete | Event | Ranking round | Round of 64 | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final / | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | Seed | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Rank | ||
| Men's individual | 655 | 42 | L 2–6 | Did not advance | 33 | |||||
| Mikaella Moshe | Women's individual | 660 | 18 | L 1–7 | Did not advance | 33 | ||||
Mikaella Moshe | Mixed team | 1315 | 18 | Did not advance | 18 | |||||
See main article: Artistic swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Artistic swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Israel qualified two athletes to compete in the women's duet as a result of high rank at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships in Doha, Qatar.[8]
See main article: article, Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Israeli track and field athletes achieved the entry standards for Paris 2024, either by passing the direct qualifying mark (or time for track and road races) or by world ranking, in the following events (a maximum of 3 athletes each):[9]
| Athlete | Event | Heat | Repechage | Semifinal | Final | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Result | Rank | ||
| Blessing Afrifah | Men's 200 m | 20.78 | 5 R | 20.88 | 4 | Did not advance | |||
| align=left rowspan=3 | Men's marathon | 2:10:42 | 26 | ||||||
| 2:11:36 | 31 | ||||||||
| Girmaw Amare | 2:12:51 | 44 | |||||||
| Lonah Chemtai Salpeter | align=left rowspan=2 | Women's marathon | 2:26:08 | 9 | |||||
| 2:33:37 | 49 | ||||||||
See main article: Badminton at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Badminton at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Israel entered one badminton player into the Olympic tournament based on the BWF Race to Paris Rankings.
See main article: Cycling at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Cycling at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification.
Israel qualified one male cyclist by finishing 39th in the UCI Nation Ranking, and one women cyclist by finishing 44th in the UCI Nation Ranking.[10]
| Athlete | Event | Time | Ranking | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Itamar Einhorn | Men's road race | 6:39:27 | 62 | |
| Rotem Gafinovitz | Women's road race | 4:13:42 | 77 |
Israel qualified two riders for the men's sprint and keirin events following the release of the final UCI Olympic rankings, but chose to send only one rider to compete.[11]
Israel qualified one man mountain biker based on the UCI Mountain biking Olympic Qualification Ranking due to reallocations of unused quota places.
See main article: Equestrian events at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Equestrian events at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Israel fielded a squad of three equestrian riders into the team jumping competitions by winning at the International Equestrian Federation designated Olympic jumping qualifier for Group C (Central and Eastern Europe) in Prague, Czech Republic.[12] Isabella Russekoff on C Vier 2 was reserve for the team competition. She partic in the individual competition.
| Athlete | Horse | Event | Qualification | Final | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Penalties | Rank | Penalties | Time | Rank | ||||
| Daniel Bluman | Ladriano Z | align=left rowspan=3 | Individual | Did not advance | ||||
| Robin Muhr | Galaxy HM | 8 | 42 | Did not advance | ||||
| Isabella Russekoff | C Vier 2 | 20 | 64 | Did not advance | ||||
| Daniel Bluman Ashlee Bond Robin Muhr | Ladriano Z Donatello 141 Galaxy HM | Team | 20 | 9 Q | 33 | 157.45 | 9 | |
See main article: Fencing at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Fencing at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. For the first time since 2008, Israel entered one fencer into the Olympic competition. Yuval Freilich secured his quota place in men's épée, as one of the two highest-ranked individual fencers in the European zone in the FIE Official ranking for Paris 2024.
See main article: Football at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
See main article: Football at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament and Football at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification. Israel men's football team qualified for the Olympics by advancing to the semifinals of the 2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship in Georgia and Romania, marking the nation's return to the sport for the first time since Montreal 1976.[13]
See main article: Gymnastics at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Gymnastics at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification.
Israel qualified two gymnasts, Artem Dolgopyat and Lihie Raz, by their being among the highest-ranked eligible athletes in the All-around at the 2023 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.[14] [15]
| Athlete | Event | Qualification | Final | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apparatus | Total | Rank | Apparatus | Total | Rank | ||||||||||||
| align=left rowspan=2 | Artem Dolgopyat | Floor | 14.466 | 14.466 | 7 Q | 14.966 | 14.966 | ||||||||||
| Pommel horse | 13.000 | 13.000 | 46 | Did not advance | |||||||||||||
| Athlete | Event | Qualification | Final | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apparatus | Total | Rank | Apparatus | Total | Rank | |||||||||
| align=left rowspan=2 | Lihie Raz | All-around | 13.666 | 12.833 | 12.300 | 12.833 | 51.632 | 31 R1 | Did not advance | |||||
| Vault | 13.449 | 13.449 | 16 | Did not advance | ||||||||||
Israel entered a squad of rhythmic gymnasts to compete in the group all-around competition, following the nation's successful runner-up at the 2022 World Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria.[16] [17] Additionally, Israel also entered an individual gymnast through the individual all-round qualifications at the 2023 World Championships in Valencia, Spain.
See main article: Judo at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Judo at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Judoka listed are those who secured qualification.
| Athlete | Event | Round of 64 | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Repechage | Final / | Rank | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | ||||
| Yam Wolczak | −60 kg | W 10–00 | L 00–11 | Did not advance | 9 | |||||
| Baruch Shmailov | −66 kg | W 01–00 | L 00–01 | Did not advance | 9 | |||||
| Tohar Butbul | −73 kg | W 10–00 | L 00–10 | Did not advance | 9 | |||||
| Sagi Muki | −81 kg | W 10–00 | L 00–10 | Did not advance | 9 | |||||
| Peter Paltchik | −100 kg | W 10–00 | W 10–00 | L 00–01 | Did not advance | W 10–00 | W 01–00 | |||
| Athlete | Event | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Repechage | Final / | Rank | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | ||||
| Shira Rishony | −48 kg | L 00–01 | Did not advance | 17 | |||||
| Gefen Primo | −52 kg | W 10–00 | W 01–00 | L 00–10 | Did not advance | L 00–10 | Did not advance | 7 | |
| Timna Nelson-Levy | −57 kg | W 01–00 | L 00–10 | Did not advance | 9 | ||||
| Gili Sharir | −63 kg | L 00–01 | Did not advance | 17 | |||||
| Maya Goshen | −70 kg | W 10–00 | L 00–10 | Did not advance | 9 | ||||
| Inbar Lanir | −78 kg | W 10–00 | W 10–00 | W 10–00 | L 00–11 | ||||
| Raz Hershko | +78 kg | W 10–00 | W 10–00 | W 10–00 | L 00–01 | ||||
See main article: Sailing at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Sailing at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Israeli sailors qualified one boat in Men's and Women's iQFoil, Women's Formula Kite, and Mixed 470 through the 2023 Sailing World Championships in The Hague, Netherlands;[18] They also qualified one boat in Men's Laser through the 2024 ILCA Senior European Championships in Athens, Greece. Additionally, Israeli sailors qualified one boat in Women's Laser Radial through the 2024 ILCA Senior European Championships after Portugal's quota from the 2023 Sailing World Championships was disqualified because Vasileia Karachaliou did not receive Portuguese citizenship and was not approved to representing Portugal.[19]
| Athlete | Event | Opening Series | Final Series | Final rank | |||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | Net Points | Rank | QF | SF | F | |||
| Tom Reuveny | Men's iQFoil | 8 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 63 | 2 Q | 2 Q | 1 | |||||||||||
| Sharon Kantor | Women's iQFoil | 6 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 11 | 49 | 2 Q | 1 Q | 2 | ||||||||||
| Athlete | Event | Opening Series | Final Series | Final rank | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | Net Points | Rank | SF1 | SF2 | SF3 | SF4 | SF5 | SF6 | F1 | F2 | F3 | F4 | F5 | F6 | |||
| Dor Zarka | Men's Formula Kite | 15 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 13 | 52 | 13 | Did not advance | 13 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gal Zukerman | Women's Formula Kite | 10 | 9 | 10 | 5 | 11 | 45 | 10 Q | 3 | Did not advance | 8 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Athlete | Event | Race | Net points | Final rank | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | M* | ||||
| Omer Vered Vilenchik | Men's ILCA7 | 38 | 3 | 7 | 36 | 37 | 20 | 25 | EL | 166 | 30 | |||
| Shai Kakon | Women's ILCA6 | 22 | 33 | 12 | 7 | 31 | 25 | 10 | 18 | EL | 158 | 24 | ||
| Noa Lasri Nitai Hasson | Mixed 470 | 10 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 2 | 7 | 14 | 10 | 67 | 7 | |||
See main article: Shooting at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Shooting at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Israeli shooter Sergey Richter achieved quota places for the delegation in the men's 10 metre air rifle through the ISSF World Olympic Rankings after universality spots were reallocated. This willl be his fourth appearance at the Olympics.[20]
See main article: Surfing at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Surfing at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification.
Israel surfers confirmed one shortboard quota place. Anat Lelior qualified for the games, by virtue of being one of the top eight individual women's surfers, not yet qualified, at the 2024 ISA World Surfing Games in Arecibo, Puerto Rico.[21] [22]
See main article: article, Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Israeli swimmers achieved the entry standards in the following events for Paris 2024 (a maximum of two swimmers under the Olympic Qualifying Time (OST) and potentially at the Olympic Consideration Time (OCT)):[23]
| Athlete | Event | Heat | Semifinal | Final | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | |||
| Meiron Cheruti | align=left rowspan=2 | 50 m freestyle | 21.88 | 10 Q | 21.91 | 13 | Did not advance | |
| Martin Kartavi | 22.01 | 19 | Did not advance | |||||
| align=left rowspan=2 | Tomer Frankel | 100 m freestyle | 48.66 | 21 | Did not advance | |||
| 100 m butterfly | 51.94 | 21 | Did not advance | |||||
| Denis Loktev | 200 m freestyle | 1:47.01 | 14 Q | 1:47.93 | 16 | Did not advance | ||
| Gal Cohen Groumi | 100 m butterfly | 51.30 | 10 Q | 51.48 | 12 | Did not advance | ||
| Adam Maraana | 100 m backstroke | 54.61 | 28 | Did not advance | ||||
| David Gerchik | 200 m backstroke | 1:58.79 | 22 | Did not advance | ||||
| align=left rowspan=2 | Ron Polonsky | 100 m breaststroke | 1:00.00 NR | 16 Q | 1:00.37 | 16 | Did not advance | |
| 200 m individual medley | 1:58.30 | =7 Q | 1:58.89 | 12 | Did not advance | |||
| Tomer Frankel Gal Cohen Groumi Denis Loktev Alexey Glivinskiy | 4 × 100 m freestyle relay | 3:15.41 | 14 | Did not advance | ||||
| Denis Loktev Bar Soloveychik Eitan Ben Shitrit Gal Cohen Groumi | 4 × 200 m freestyle relay | 7:08.43 NR | =8 Q | 7:10.22 | 9 | |||
| Matan Roditi | 10 km open water | 1:57:02.3 | 16 | |||||
| Athlete | Event | Heat | Semifinal | Final | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | |||
| align=left rowspan=4 | Anastasia Gorbenko | 200 m backstroke | 2:10.29 | 13 Q | 2:11.96 | 16 | Did not advance | |
| 100 m breaststroke | 1:06.22 | 7 Q | Withdraw | |||||
| 200 m individual medley | 2:11.53 | 11 Q | 2:10.32 | 9 | Did not advance | |||
| 400 m individual medley | 4:41.64 | 10 | Did not advance | |||||
| align=left rowspan=2 | Aviv Barzelay | 100 m backstroke | 1:02.30 | 25 | Did not advance | |||
| 200 m backstroke | 2:10.71 | 18 | Did not advance | |||||
| align=left rowspan=2 | Lea Polonsky | 200 m freestyle | 2:00.38 | 19 | Did not advance | |||
| 200 m individual medley | 2:17.53 | 28 | Did not advance | |||||
| Anastasia Gorbenko Daria Golovaty Ayla Spitz Lea Polonsky | 4 × 200 m freestyle relay | 7:55.99 | 11 | Did not advance | ||||
See main article: Taekwondo at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Taekwondo at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Israel qualified one athlete. Tokyo 2020 bronze medalist Avishag Semberg qualified for Paris 2024 at the 2024 European Qualification Tournament in Sofia, Bulgaria.
See main article: Triathlon at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Triathlon at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Israel qualified one male triathlete based on the World Triathlon Individual Olympic Qualification Ranking. Shachar Sagiv, who was the triathlete who qualified in the ranking, was selected to represent Israel in the 2024 Olympics.[24]
Palestinian sports organizations and sports organizations from Arab countries are calling for sanctions to be imposed against Israel and to prevent its participation in the 2024 Summer Olympics due to the Israel–Hamas war. The calls from the Palestinian and Arab organizations have been prompted by concerns about the war's impact on Palestinian athletes and sports facilities.[25] [26]
In February, twenty-six French lawmakers sent a letter to the IOC, urging sanctions against Israel, and calling for a ban on Israeli athletes competing under their flag and anthem. The lawmakers cited Israel's alleged war crimes in the Gaza Strip as the reason for their stance. They proposed that Israeli athletes participate neutrally, similar to Russian and Belarusian athletes, during the Games.[27] [28] The American-based global organization Avaaz started an online appeal calling on IOC to ban Israel from the Games until it "ceases its assault on innocent civilians in Gaza."[29]
Thomas Portes, a lawmaker from La France Insoumise party, was captured on video saying that Israel's Olympic athletes "were not welcome in France" and called for protests against their participation in the Olympic games.[30] On 23 July 2024, protests were held in Paris by pro-Palestinian demonstrators urging the IOC to have Israel excluded from the Games.[31]
The IOC has cautioned athletes against boycotting or discriminating against others, stating that immediate action will follow any discriminatory behavior such as the case of Algerian judoka Fethi Nourine, who received a ten year ban following his refusal to fight Tohar Butbul, an Israeli, in the 2020 Summer Olympics. The IOC also stated that athletes are not to be held accountable for their government's actions.[32] However, Algerian judoka Messaoud Dris, who was previously reported to consider withdrawing,[33] was disqualified ahead of a match against Butbul in the −73 kg event, after his weight was measured to be 0.4 kg above the limit.[34] Jibril Rajoub, the president of the Palestine Olympic Committee, said he would refuse to engage with his Israeli counterpart Yael Arad, commenting: "The Palestinian athletes and I will follow the principles of the IOC. And if we feel that there is any violation from our side, we have to fight against it. The ball is in the other side's court." He further referenced Israeli judoka and flagbearer Peter Paltchik, accused of posting on his social media images of Israeli missiles captioned "From me to you with pleasure".[35]
In November 2023, Russia accused the IOC of having double standards by not sanctioning Israel due to its military actions in Gaza, as Palestine is also an IOC member. The IOC's response to the comparisons to Russia was that the recommendations adopted on Russia and Belarus resulted from the violation of the Olympic Truce that was in force at the time, Russia's violation of the Olympic Charter following their annexation of four Ukrainian Olympic councils, and Russia's two previous violations in 2008 and 2014.[36] [37] American academic and former professional soccer player Jules Boykoff described the double standards as "glaring" and questioned the IOC's treatment of Israel compared to Russia, stating that Israel's various settlements in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights are in violation of the Olympic Charter the same way the Russian invasion of Ukraine is.[38] [39] However, French president Emmanuel Macron defended the decision to include Israel, stating that "Israel responded to a terrorist attack" by Hamas, and that "this is not a war of aggression".[40]
During the national anthem, Israel team has faced heckling in stadiums, and athletes have been escorted to events by a strong police presence, including riot police vans.[41] In the soccer game against Mali, Palestinian flags were displayed by a few spectators, with some parts of the crowd booing the Israelis and occasional chants of “free Palestine” being heard while there were chants demanding the release of the hostages.