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DR.
URIEL SIMRI
Sport: Official/Administrator
Inducted: 1991
Country: Israel
Born: May 22, 1925, in Vienna, Austria
Died: February 18, 2016
The first executive director of the International Jewish Sports Hall of
Fame, Dr. Simri is recognized as one of the world’s leading authorities
and
educators on physical education and physical culture.
The Austrian-born Simri is the author of more than 20 books, an international
lecturer, and governmental advisor. He has served as president of
the Society of the History of Physical Education and Sport in Asia and
secretary-treasurer of the International Society for Comparative Physical
Education and Sport.
Since 1961, Dr. Simri has been associated with Israel’s Wingate Institute
of Physical Education and Sport, the only physical education campus
in the Middle East. He has held various key positions at Wingate, including
terms as deputy director and scientific director. In 1963–64, the
Israeli
government assigned him to Ethiopia, where he served as director of athletics
at Haile Selassie University of Addis Ababa.
An international basketball
(FIBA) referee from 1954 to 1962, Simri
was the first-ever Israeli selected to officiate Olympic Games competition
as a basketball referee at the 1956 Melbourne Games.
Simri immigrated to Palestine in 1934. |
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