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Fears of Islamist terror and Gaza disruption at Paris Olympics, police chief says

France on highest security alert ahead of the Games as Islamic State terror plot at football stadium foiled by authorities

By Jane Prinsley

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Paris' Police Prefect Laurent Nuñez said he was concerned terrorism would threaten the Olympics as he attended a press conference on the logistics for the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, in Paris, on June 13, 2024. (Photo by JULIEN DE ROSA/AFP via Getty Images)

2KDD07H Melkamu Fetene (ISR) GR 60kg exultation during the Wrestling U20 European Championships on June 29, 2022 at the Matteo Pellicone in Rome, Italy (Photo by Luigi Mariani/LiveMedia/NurPhoto)

Olympic dreams dashed as Israeli authorities ban wrestling team from Turkey

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Picture taken on January 8, 2023 shows Hungarian-Israeli retired Olympic and world champion artistic gymnast and coach Agnes Keleti posing for a picture as she prepares for her 102nd birthday in her flat in Budapest, Hungary. - Agnes Keleti, a survivor of the Holocaust, was born on January 9, 1921, immigrated to Israel in the 1950ies and returned to Hungary in 2015. During her career as a gymnast, she won 10 Olympic medals in Helsinki (1952) and in Melbourne (1956) and is considered to be the world's oldest living Olympic athlete. (Photo by Attila KISBENEDEK / AFP) (Photo by ATTILA KISBENEDEK/AFP via Getty Images)

Extraordinary life of Olympic champion Agnes Keleti told at Jewish family history conference

By Daniel Ben-David

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Allan Jay of Great Britain (L) competes against Daniel Revenu of France in the Men's Individual Foil Fencing competition on 13th October 1964 during the XVIII Summer Olympic Games at the Memorial Hall, Waseda University, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Obituary: Allan Louis Neville Jay, MBE

By Gloria Tessler

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BAKU, AZERBAIJAN - JUNE 16: Bronze medalist Sergey Richter of Israel poses with the medal won in the Men's 10m Air Rifle during day four of the Baku 2015 European Games at Baku Shooting Centre on June 16, 2015 in Baku, Azerbaijan. (Photo by Matthias Hangst/Getty Images for BEGOC)

Israeli Olympic shooter pulls out of World Cup after being barred from wearing ‘Israeli symbols’

By Georgia L Gilholy

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