International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame
The International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame was opened July 7, 1981 in Netanya, Israel. It honors Jewish athletes and their accomplishments from anywhere around the world.
It is located at the Wingate Institute for Physical Education and Sport. It has inducted over 300 athletes and sportspersons representing 25 countries. The Hall elects new honorees each year, with submissions due December 1 for votes for the following year, and a formal induction ceremony taking place several days prior to the Maccabiah Games every four years.
The Hall was founded by Joseph M. Siegman, a television producer and writer who lives in Beverly Hills, California. He chaired the Hall from 1981 to 1989, and later served as chairman of its Selection Committee.
The IJSHoF is separate from the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, an American hall of fame that honors only American Jews.
Inductees
Pillar of Achievement
The Pillar of Achievement recognizes Jewish men and women who have made significant contributions to sports and to the world community through sports.| Name | Country | Field | Year |
| Jesse Abramson* | Media | 1995 | |
| Maury Allen | Media | 2009 | |
| Jehoshua Alouf | Official/Administrator | 1981 | |
| Robert Atlasz | Official/Administrator | 1986 | |
| Baruch Bagg | Official/Administrator | 1981 | |
| Moe Berg | Baseball/Patriot | 1983 | |
| Gretel Bergmann | Track & Field | 1980 | |
| Ira Berkow | Media | 2006 | |
| Dr. Richard Blum | Official/Administrator | 1983 | |
| Alfréd Brüll | Official/Administrator | 1995 | |
| John Brunswick | Bowling | 1996 | |
| Daniel Bukantz | Official/Administrator | 2001 | |
| Si Burick* | Media | 2000 | |
| Murray Chass | Media | 2012 | |
| Haskell Cohen | Official/Media | 1991 | |
| Dan Daniel* | Media | 1996 | |
| Bill Davidson* | Basketball | 2012 | |
| Massimo Della Pergola | Official/Media | 1989 | |
| Judith Deutsch | Swimming | 1981 | |
| Lajos Dömény-Deutsch* | Official/Administrator | 1995 | |
| Leo Donáth | Swimming | 1999 | |
| Leone Efrati | Boxing | 2000 | |
| Al Munro Elias* | Media | 2003 | |
| Red Fisher | Media | 1999 | |
| György Szepesi | Media | 1998 | |
| Ian Froman | Tennis | 1991 | |
| Harry L. Getz | Official/Administrator | 1985 | |
| Emmanuel Gill | Official/Administrator | 1983 | |
| Harry Glickman | Official/Administrator | 1995 | |
| Marty Glickman | Media | 1996 | |
| Chaim Glovinsky | Official/Administrator | 1982 | |
| Julius Goldman | Basketball | 1999 | |
| Kenneth Gradon | Official/Administrator | 2002 | |
| Al Greenberg | Media | 1993 | |
| Bud Greenspan | Media | 1995 | |
| Pierre Guildesgame | Official/Administrator | 1985 | |
| Allen Guttmann | Media | 2013 | |
| Lester Harrison | Basketball | 1991 | |
| Sidney Halter | Football | 2005 | |
| Gladys Heldman | Tennis/Media | 1989 | |
| Harry Henshel | Official/Administrator | 1983 | |
| Jerome Holtzman* | Media | 2005 | |
| Joseph Inbar | Official/Administrator | 1989 | |
| Mike Jacobs | Boxing | 1993 | |
| Hank Kaplan | Media | 2004 | |
| Henry Kaplan | Boxing | 2004 | |
| Ferenc Kemény | Official/Administrator | 1996 | |
| Leonard Koppett | Media | 2011 | |
| Kurt Lamm | Soccer | 1993 | |
| Harold Landesberg | Official/Administrator | 1983 | |
| Fred Lebow | Official/Administrator | 1994 | |
| Dr. Herman Leweller | Official/Administrator | 1987 | |
| A.J. Liebling* | Media | 1998 | |
| Bill Lippy | Official/Administrator | 1997 | |
| Willy Meisl* | Media | 1986 | |
| Marvin Miller | Official/Administrator | 2001 | |
| Barney Nagler* | Media | 1992 | |
| Ben Olan | Media | 1994 | |
| Murray Olderman | Media | 1997 | |
| Charles Ornstein* | Official/Administrator | 1984 | |
| Orna Ostfeld | Basketball | 2009 | |
| Bernard Postal* | Media | 1986 | |
| Shirley Povich | Media | 1992 | |
| Julia Jones Pugliese* | Fencing | 2002 | |
| Jimmie Reese* | Baseball | 1995 | |
| Joe Reichler* | Media | 2008 | |
| Harold U. Ribalow* | Media | 2009 | |
| Ed Sabol | Media | 1996 | |
| Al Schacht* | Baseball | 2008 | |
| Dick Schaap* | Media | 2003 | |
| Eric Seelig* | Boxing | 1992 | |
| Joseph Shane | Official/Administrator | 2002 | |
| Jesse Silver | Media | 1989 | |
| Roy Silver | Media | 1989 | |
| Harry Simmons* | Official/Administrator | 2007 | |
| Emmanuel Simon* | Official/Administrator | 1983 | |
| Dr. Uri Simri | Official/Administrator | 1991 | |
| Margaredt Sonnenfeld | Official/Coach | 1997 | |
| Oscar State* | Official/Weightlifting | 1989 | |
| Louis Stein* | Official/Bowling | 1992 | |
| Bill Stern* | Media | 2001 | |
| Sam Stoller* | Track & Field | 2007 | |
| Artur Takač | Official/Administrator | 1989 | |
| Sam Taub* | Media | 1993 | |
| Irving Ungerman | Boxing | 1994 | |
| Ben Weider | Body Building | 1992 | |
| Joe Weider | Body Building | 1992 | |
| Chaim Wein* | Official/Administrator | 1986 | |
| Joseph Yekuteli* | Official/Administrator | 1982 | |
| Aviezer Yellin* | Official/Administrator | 1984 | |
| Paul Ziffren* | Official/Administrator | 1993 | |
| Harold O. Zimman* | Official/Media | 1991 |
- NB: * denotes a posthumous induction
Lifetime Achievement
| Year | Name | Location |
| 1992 | Sam Sharrow |  Miami Beach, Florida, United States |
| 1993 | David Pincus | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
| 1994 | Karl Ribstein |  Munich, Germany |
| 1995 |  Monty Hall | Beverly Hills, California, United States |
| 1996 | Yariv Oren |  Netanya, Israel |
| 1997 | Alan Sherman | Potomac, Maryland, United States |
| 1998 | Moshe Rashkes | Ramat Gan, Israel |
| 1999 | Fred Worms, OBE |  London, England, UK |
| 2000 | Joseph Luttenberg | Afeka, Israel |
| 2001 | Robert Spivak | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
| 2002 | Uri Afek | Netanya, Israel |
| 2003 | Lester Fein | Vernon, New Jersey, USA |
| 2004 | Shimon Mizrahi | Tel Aviv, Israel |
| 2005 | Sidney Greenberg | Toronto, Canada |
| 2006 | Alex Gilady | |
| 2007 | Joyce Eisenberg-Keefer | Los Angeles, California, USA |
| 2008 | R. Stephen Rubin, OBE | London, England, UK |
| 2009 | Michael Kevezahi |  Tel Aviv, Israel |
| 2010 | Moshe Teumim | Tel Aviv, Israel |
| 2011 | Robert Levy | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
| 2012 | Michel Grun |  Antwerp, Belgium |
| 2013 | William Steerman | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
| 2014 | Harry Swimmer | Charlotte, North Carolina, USA |
| 2015 | Robert Kraft | Foxborough, Massachusetts, USA |
| 2016 | Dr. Uri Schaefer | Tel Aviv, Israel |
| 2017 | Victor Vaisman |  Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| 2018 | Joseph Siegman | Los Angeles, California, USA |
| 2019 | Roy Salomon | Montreal, Canada |
| 2020 | Sylvan Adams | Tel Aviv, Israel |
Chairman's Award of Excellence
Books
- ', Burton Alan Boxerman, Benita W. Boxerman, McFarland, 2010,
- ', Howard Megdal, Collins, 2009,
- ', Vol. 23 of Studies in Contemporary Jewry, Ezra Mendelsohn, Oxford University Press US, 2009,
- ', Bob Wechsler, KTAV Publishing House, 2008,
- ', Peter S. Horvitz, Joachim Horvitz, S P I Books, 2007,
- ', Peter S. Horvitz, SP Books, 2007,
- ', Jack Kugelmass, University of Illinois Press, 2007,
- ', Peter S. Horvitz, Joachim Horvitz, Perseus Distribution Services, 2007,
- , Burton Alan Boxerman, Benita W. Boxerman, McFarland, 2006,
- ', Michael Brenner, Gideon Reuveni, translated by Brenner, Reuveni, U of Nebraska Press, 2006,
- ', David J. Goldman, Edition 2, Kar-Ben Publishing, 2006,
- ', Jeffrey S. Gurock, Indiana University Press, 2005,
- ', Paul Yogi Mayer, Vallentine Mitchell, 2004,
- ', Robert Slater, Jonathan David Publishers, 2004,
- ', Paul Taylor, Sussex Academic Press, 2004,
- ', B. P. Robert Stephen Silverman, Scarecrow Press, 2003,
- ', Milly Mogulof, RDR Books, 2002,
- ', Peter S. Horvitz, Joachim Horvitz, SP Books, 2001,
- ', 3rd Ed, Joseph Siegman, Brassey's, 2000,
- ', Steven A. Riess, Syracuse University Press, 1998,
- , Allen Bodner, Praeger, 1997,
- ', Peter Levine, Oxford University Press US, 1993,
- ', Robert Slater, Jonathan David Publishers, 1993,
- ', Joseph M. Siegman, SP Books, 1992,
- ', B. P. Robert Stephen Silverman, Shapolsky Publishers, 1989,
- ', Ken Blady, SP Books, 1988,
- ', Harold U. Ribalow, Meir Z. Ribalow, Hippocrene Books, 1987,
- ', Erwin Lynn, Shapolsky Publishers, 1986,
- ', Andrew Handler, East European Monographs, 1985,
- ', Harold Uriel Ribalow, Meir Z. Ribalow, Edition 4, Hippocrene Books, 1985,
- ', Harold Uriel Ribalow, Meir Z. Ribalow, Hippocrene Books, 1984,
- ', Leible Hershfield, s.n., 1980
- , Bernard Postal, Jesse Silver, Roy Silver, Bloch Pub. Co., 1965