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A handful of diverse athletes — a pole-vaulter, sprinter, shot-putter, rugby player, and former Olympian in skeleton — will compete as Israel's first bobsled team during this year's Milan Cortina Winter Games, unlikely ambassadors of their diplomatically isolated nation.

AJ Edelman, the driver for the Israeli bobsled team, said the stolen items included passports, suitcases, shoes and sporting equipment

Meet the Szollos siblings, Team Israel's skiing stars making history at the 2026 Winter Olympics with impressive achievements.

Israel Olympic bobsled team captain AJ Edelman says his team was allegedly burglarized in Prague days before their first Winter Olympics.

Israel is sending nine Olympians and one Paralympian to the Milano Cortina Games, with modest aims of setting new Israeli records and proudly flying the flag of the Jewish state

Team captain AJ Edelman opens up about creating Israel’s first Olympic bobsled team for the Milano Cortina Games.

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Jewish and Israeli athletes enjoyed historic success at the most recent Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris in 2024, with a combined 36 athletes taking home 31 total medals between the two competitions. Israel’s seven Olympic medals were the country’s most in a single tournament.

Passports and “thousands of dollars” worth of other items were among what was taken, Israeli bobsled pilot AJ Edelman said.

In Milano Cortina, Israel’s winter athletes will aim to leave a lasting impression – one run, skate, and slide at a time with nine Olympians and one Paralympian competing.

Former Tulane track and field athlete Jared Firestone will make history next week when he competes in the skeleton for Israel at the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter