{"id":797599,"date":"2026-07-13T13:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T13:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/797599\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T13:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T13:23:10","slug":"israeli-womens-under-20-wins-historic-basketball-medal-in-europe-israel-jewish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/797599\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli women\u2019s under-20 wins historic basketball medal in Europe &#8211; Israel &#038; Jewish News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            (July 13, 2026 \/ JNS)\n                    <\/p>\n<p>The Israeli women\u2019s under-20 basketball team on Sunday ended its historic campaign in the FIBA EuroBasket tournament with a silver medal, after losing in the finals 66:79 to France.<\/p>\n<p>It was the first medal that an Israeli national women\u2019s team has ever won.<\/p>\n<p>The team, led by manager Tal Natan, reached the finals in Lithuania after defeating Belgium 78:69 on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The match against France got off to a rough start, with the Israeli athletes unable to score for more than six minutes, outlet Walla News reported. However, they managed to close the 18:0 score gap to only five points during the second quarter. <\/p>\n<p>And despite a six-minute dry spell for the French team in the fourth quarter, it kept its lead until the final whistle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(July 13, 2026 \/ JNS) The Israeli women\u2019s under-20 basketball team on Sunday ended its historic campaign in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-797599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}