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JOSEPH
YEKUTIELI
Sport: Official/Administrator
Inducted: 1982
Country: Israel
Born: April 15, 1897, in Beresa, Russia
Died: 1982
The lone delegate from Palestine to the 1929 World Maccabi Congress,
Joseph Yekutieli presented a concept for what he called the Maccabiah
Games. His proposal was unanimously approved, and plans were organized
to stage the first Maccabiah in Tel Aviv on March 29 to April 6, 1932.
Active on many committees, Yekutieli was a founder of the Soccer
Football Federation in 1928; one of the founders in 1931 of the Amateur
Sports Association; and in 1933, a founder of the Eretz Yisroel Olympic
Committee. He was Israel’s representative to the Asian Sports Federation
Games and received the Israel Prize for Lifetime Achievements in 1979.
Yekutieli immigrated to Palestine in 1908. After several years of physical
education schooling in Jerusalem and Yaffa, he was conscripted to
serve as a physical education instructor and translator in the Turkish
Army and was decorated with the Ottoman Iron Ribbon. |
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