Maccabi Tel-Aviv, last words before the game against Tau Vitoria, Nokia Arena, Tel-Aviv.

Basketball training, Moshav Tzoran.

The first horse race, Afula.

2X3 Three disciplines of sports, two brothers, one ambition. For one year I accompanied the two brothers, Ran and Dan Alterman, the indisputable leaders of Triathlon sport in Israel, in their training to an Olympic classification, which will give them the right to participate in the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. Triathlon has been around in Israel for a long time but Ran and Dan Alterman are the first that achieve a high international level in this sport. Their story is the story of the Triathlon branch, a branch which has quickly accumulated popularity in a large segment of the population, from eight years old kids to sixty-five years old adults. Ran and Dan Alterman, which are identical twins, have no personal trainer in Israel. They receive their professional training over the phone or via e-mail from their trainer, Craig, who lives in New-Zealand. The main photo spots of the story are the training fields of the brothers - the sea, the running track at Wingate, the bicycle track and their house.

The boxing club Hapo'el Bat-Yam prefers quality over quantity and invests in those who want to invest. Discipline is emphasized strongly, especially with young children. Anyone who is not certain or obliged leaves. When the club was first established, it was primarily children from an underprivileged background who joined, although today, the situation is more balanced. The club does not advertise, and the children learn of the place by word of mouth. All the trainers are volunteering in the club and make a living from other jobs. Igor Kerzner, the head trainer who did Aliyah from Ukraine in 1990, works as vice-president and electrical engineer at "M.Shemesh". Because almost all members in the club are from the former Soviet Union, the training is carried out in Russian.

In the past children used to spend their leisure time after school and in summer holidays by playing football or riding their bike with their friends in the neighborhood. In current years, since the development of the Internet and advanced computer games, the parents are forced to adopt novel ways to make their children to get up, exercise and play with other children their age. A multitude of classes have been established in order to stimulate the needed high excitement of children: Pilates classes and yoga, triathlon and even classes in unicycle.

Yaniv Green, player for Maccabi Tel-Aviv, meets the 11-years old Caroline Taviv, an outstanding athlete participating in sport competitions for handicapped, Nokia Arena, Tel-Aviv.

Body Building Competition in Israel
Two sports clubs for body building exists in Israel. Each of them claims to belong to an international chain. One of the clubs is called Nabba and the other I.F.B.B. Israeli body building hardly fills a sports hall with audience during a competition and is nowhere as popular as in the States. Despite the few clubs, both of them claims supremacy and ignore each other. They do not co-operate in competitions, and each club arranges its own competitions