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Lustigman reflects on "successful" lawn bowls tour of Israel

Stuart Lustigman described the Maccabi GB Lawn Bowls Tour 2017 an "outstanding success" following matches against Haifa, Kiryat Ono, Netanya and Ra'anana Bowls Clubs.

October 30, 2017 16:05
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The group started the tour with a walking tour of Akko and then visited the Carmiel Children's Village, an UJIA project and played against Haifa BC.

MGB’s winning top team comprises Myra Schaffer, Laurence Ackerman and Terry Lichkin. The non-bowlers visited the artists’ village in Ein Hod.

The next day was spent in Jerusalem with a visit to the Knesset, lunch in the Rose Garden and then on to the memorial site at Ammunition Hill to see the new interactive museum. Ammunition Hill was a fortified Jordanian military post in the northern part of Jordanian-occupied East Jerusalem and the western slope of Mount Scopus. It was the site of one of the fiercest battles of the Six-Day War.

The group were then hosted by the Wingate Institute, Israel's National Centre for Excellence in Sport, and were shown around some laboratories and the Centre of Sports Excellence that prepares athletes for the Olympics and international events.  They then played against Kiryat Ono BC. The MGB top team award went to Bernard Taub, Warren Ross and Laurence Pinkus. The non-bowlers visited the Beit Hatfutsot (Museum of the Jewish People formerly the Diaspora Museum) to see an exhibition of Operation Moses – 30 Years After (the Ethiopian exodus to Israel).