Joshua Cramer, a member of the GB basketball team at the Maccabiah Games, is following in the footsteps of his great-grandfather.
Joshua, 18, a pupil at City of London School, scored the winning three points as GB beat Turkey 47-31 — their first opening match victory in 13 years.
Great-grandfather Yosef Steinitz was a gymnast who won gold for Poland in the first Maccabiah Games in 1932 but had to settle for second place to enable the USA to claim a “diplomatic” win.
Steinitz, then 25, met a young volunteer named Deborah at the games, who had come to Israel from Russia in 1920. The couple married and continued to live in Israel.
