Yosef Yekutieli
Yosef Yekutieli | |
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יוסף יקותיאלי | |
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Died | September 25, 1982 Tel Aviv, Israel | (aged 85)
Nationality | Israel |
Occupation | Sports promoter |
Years active | 1918–1966 |
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Spouse | Yehudit Yekutieli |
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Yosef Yekutieli (also Joseph Yekutieli;
Biography
Yosef Yekutieli was born in Kartuz-Bereza in the Russian Empire (now in western Belarus). In 1909, at the age of twelve, he immigrated to Ottoman Palestine with his family.[3] He studied at the Tachkemoni Religious School in Tel Aviv and later at the David Yellin College of Education in Jerusalem. After completing his studies Yekutieli return to Jaffa working for the Eretz Yisrael Office, later playing football for the Maccabi Tel Aviv until the outbreak of World War I.
In 1914 Yekutieli was drafted to the Turkish army and was appointed physical education instructor at the Mujahideen headquarters and at the public school in Nablus.[3] Yekutieli served as a Turkish-German interpreter at the German transport companies K.K. 502., until being exiled to Anatolia in 1918, along with all the other Jewish military members.[2]
At the end of the war, Yekutieli returned to
Following his return to Palestine at the end of war, Yekutieli operated and ran the "Maccabi" until his death. He was the driving force behind the foundation of sport institutions in Israel, including the Eretz Israel Football Association in 1928,[1] the Federation for Amateur Sports in Palestine (now the Israeli Athletic Association) in 1931 and the Olympic Committee of Eretz Israel in 1933.[1]
Maccabiah
In June 1929, at the World Congress of Maccabi in
The Maccabiah Flag, a donation by Yosef and Yehudit in memory of their son Amnon, a squad commander in the
Later years
After the formation of Israel in 1948, Yekutieli was appointed as a senior official of the government's abandoned property committee. Yekutieli retired in 1966. In 1971, he released his first book, an autobiography.
Yosef married Yehudit, the daughter of
Awards and recognition
In 1954, he was awarded the Israel Dov Hoz Prize and in 1979, he was awarded the Israel Prize for lifetime achievement in the design of sports and physical culture, promoting Israel and the establishment of international base of Israeli sports.[4] In 1981, he was awarded distinguished citizen of Tel Aviv.
Legacy
In June 2008, in a ceremony attended by Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai, the Yosef Yekutieli street in North Port, near the first Maccabiah Stadium was named after him. In Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut, a road has been named after him. The Joseph Yekutieli Maccabi Archive at Kfar Maccabiah is also named after him.[6][7]
References
- ^ a b c "JOSEPH YEKUTIELI". Archived from the original on July 29, 2013. Retrieved February 18, 2014.
- ^ Touro CollegeLibraries. p. 1157.
- ^ a b c "Yosef Yekutieli Dead at 85". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. September 30, 1982. Retrieved February 18, 2014.
- ^ OCLC 236102868.
- ISBN 9780231500098.
- ^ "Jews in the World of Sports". NADAV Foundation. Archived from the original on February 26, 2014. Retrieved February 18, 2014.
- ISBN 9780814336373.
External links
- Media related to Yosef Yekutieli at Wikimedia Commons