Team GB pile up the gold at Maccabiah games

And the girls lacrosse team made history by taking silver in a tough final against the USA.

Double silver honours went to the table tennis Masters men Jeremy Banks and Martin Schapira in the team and doubles events, with team player-boss Jeremy Banks beating an Israeli 
national player along the way.

The junior girls table tennis duo of Jessica Abrahams and Arianna Di Giammarino also claimed a silver while their male counterparts, Zack Cantor, Sammy Kaye, Daniel Olsberg and Carl Breindel clinched a bronze.

Junior team boss Robin Ashleigh said: “I am proud of my team. They faced some world-ranked opponents.”

Douglas Greenston and Terry Lichkin took a bronze in the lawn bowls pairs, while in judo there were bronzes for Jonah Alfert in the junior U55kg category and Philip Bloom in the Masters 100kg.

On the water Samuel Deutsch rowed in with a bronze in the men’s quads and Sara Black earned a bronze in the 
Jerusalem half-marathon, while Ewan 
Taylor’s 50m freestyle bronze was GB’s first individual swimming medal in 25 years.