{"product_id":"maccabiah","title":"Maccabiah","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn time for the 2025 Maccabiah Games, this picture book biography tells the origin story of the third-largest international sporting event and the unique problem-solving creator Yosef Yekutieli employed to make his dream possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1912, 15-year-old Yosef Yekutieli listened to radio broadcasts from the Stockholm Olympics and hatched an idea: an Olympic-style competition for Jewish athletes from around the globe in the brand-new city of Tel Aviv.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeople initially didn''t take him seriously, but that wouldn''t stop Yosef. For the next two decades, he worked to make this idea a reality. There was no stadium, pool, or running track anywhere in British Mandate Palestine. But Yosef wasn’t deterred.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere was one big problem left: there was no easy way to tell athletes about the games!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe solution: Motorcycles. Riding thousands of miles, over mountains and through deserts, motorcycle brigades announced the games to the world Jewish community. In 1932, the Maccabiah Games were born.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57305107038590,"sku":"NW9781681156958","price":13.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781681156958.jpg?v=1778563819","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/maccabiah","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}