Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe.Arab nations include Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel

all participating tennis countries, the number grew steadily starting with a Croatia pin, followed by Israel

hosts of the 2013 LEN European Short Course Swimming Championships after beating off competition from Israel

By David GoldSeptember 23 - Campaigners will continue efforts to have a minute's silence for the 11 Israeli athletes killed at the Munich 1972 Olympic Games incorporated into the Opening Ceremony of the next Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2016.

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the Games and a capacity crowd of 4,000 watched as the United States scraped past defending champions Israel

to host the 1968 International Stoke Mandeville Games at Ramat Gan near Tel Aviv.The invitation from Israel

  Great Britain claimed second place ahead of hosts Israel.

  In total 20 records were set within the 181 events held.Despite the fact that Israel hosted the

By Tom DegunSeptember 5 - Sarah Storey continued her phenomenal form at the London 2012 Paralympics as she claimed her third gold medal of the Games with victory in the time trial C5 on the first day of the road cycling event at Brands Hatch.

clocked a time of 35:41.54 to take the gold by a clear 11 second margin over second placed Koby Lion of Israel

By David GoldSeptember 5 - A ceremony to mark the 40th anniversary of the murder of 11 Israeli athletes and a German policeman by Palestinian terrorists at the Munich 1972 Olympics has taken place at Füerstenfeldbruck military airport.

The National Olympic Committee of Israel deserves the highest respect and highest recognition.""

That day wasn't an attack against Israel, wasn't an attack against Jews," added Charlotte Knobloch, head

in 1972 with the hope of an encounter of friendship, solidarity and peace attend, returned home to Israel

By David Gold at Eton Manor on the Olympic Park in LondonAugust 31 - Holland's Esther Vergeer will begin her bid for a fourth consecutive women's singles gold medal when she takes on Japan's Kanako Domori in the first round of the wheelchair tennis tournament at London 2012.

three in a row this week and begins his tournament against Japan's Mitsuteru Moroishi.Noam Gershony of Israel

By David Gold in LondonAugust 21 - There will be 25 athletes representing Israel at this summer's Paralympic

For the first time since 1988, Israel failed to win a single medal during this summer's Games, and so

attention will turn to the Paralympics.Conversely, Israel has a proud Paralympic history, with 113 medals

Kramer and Shraga Weinberg (pictured below) won silver medals in Beijing, so will hope to return to Israel

Our success was much higher in 1968 to 1988, when Israel was one of the pioneer nations in Paralympic

Israel is looking to at least match the six medals claimed at Beijing 2008, and were given a send off

By David Gold at the Guildhall in LondonAugust 6 - A ceremony was held here tonight to remember the 11 Israeli athletes murdered at the Munich Olympics in 1972, and the controversy caused by the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) refusal to hold a minute's silence in the London 2012 Opening Ceremony was never far from the agenda.

was echoed by Israel's sports minister, Limor Livnat, and Mick Davis, the leader of the United Jewish Israel

By David Owen at Forman's Fish Island in LondonJuly 25 - Two widows today stood in the shadow of London's Olympic Stadium and turned up the pressure on the most powerful man in world sport.

incident", Rogge said the IOC planned to attend a meeting organised by the National Olympic Committee of Israel

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Israel had been founded and was very keen to take part, though they had not yet formed a National

By Tom Degun at the Main Press Centre on the Olympic Park in LondonJuly 21 - International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Jacques Rogge has confirmed there will not be a minute's silence at the London 2012 Opening Ceremony in honour of the 11 Israeli athletes killed during the 1972 Munich Olympics.

We plan to assist the meeting organised by the National Olympic Committee of Israel and there will be

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the BBC "We must consider what this could do to other members of the delegations that are hostile to Israel

but that is basically the tactful and diplomatic way of avoiding saying "It brings up the issue of Israel-Palestine

all the other countries at the memorial in Munich following the tragedy.But this should not be about Israel

But perhaps [the IOC] thinks anything to do with Israel is controversial.