Israel at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Israel is expected to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the Games have been postponed to 23 July - 8 August 2021, because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the nation's debut in 1952, Israeli athletes have appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympic Games, other than the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, which it opted not to attend because of the nation's support for the US-led boycott. It will be Israel's seventeenth appearance at the Summer Olympics.
Four years before, a total of 47 Israeli athletes traveled to the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympics and competed across 17 sports. It was Israel's largest-ever Olympic delegation, breaking its previous record of 43 athletes set in 2008. That record is set to be broken in 2020, with 52 confirmed athletes as of December 2019. Among the sports in which its athletes will compete, Israel will mark its Olympic debuts in surfing, baseball, and equestrian.
Competitors
The Israeli delegation so far includes 54 athletes, competing in 9 sports.| Sport | Men | Women | Total |
| Athletics | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| Baseball | 24 | 0 | 24 |
| Cycling | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Equestrian | TBD | TBD | 3 |
| Gymnastics | 2 | 7 | 9 |
| Sailing | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| Shooting | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Surfing | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Swimming | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| Total | 35 | 16 | 54 |
Athletics
Israeli athletes met the entry standards, either by qualifying time or by world ranking, in the following track and field events :The Olympic Committee of Israel has not yet released the names of athletes to participate in the delegation.
;Track & road events
Baseball
The Israel national baseball team qualified for the Olympics by winning the gold medal at the 2019 WSBC Africa and Europe Qualification Tournament in Italy and securing an outright berth, marking the country's Olympic debut in baseball.;Team roster
- Men's team event – 1 team of 24 players
Cycling
Road
Israeli road cyclist Omer Shapira ranked 60th in the Individual UCI World Ranking for women with 316.17 points and won a quota for her country. Shapira also finished 13th at the Women individual time trial event at the 2019 UCI Road World Championships, but after decreasing to one athlete per country, Shapira placed eighth. The first 10 places automatically qualified their country to the women's individual time trial event.| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank |
| Women's road race | |||
| Women's time trial |
Equestrian
Israel fielded a squad of three equestrian riders in the Olympic team jumping competition for the first time by securing an outright berth as the top-ranked nation at the International Equestrian Federation -designated Olympic qualifier for the first batch of Group C in Moscow. In July 2019 Team Israel’s Daniel Bluman, Ashlee Bond, Danielle Goldstein Waldman, and Elad Yaniv won the Olympic Jumping Qualifier at Maxima Park in Moscow, qualifying for the Tokyo Olympics, the first time that Israel has earned a place in the Olympics in equestrian.Jumping
Gymnastics
Artistic
Israel entered two artistic gymnasts into the Olympic competition. Three-time Olympian Alexander Shatilov booked a spot in the men's individual all-around and apparatus events, by finishing seventh out of the 12 gymnasts eligible for qualification at the 2019 World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany, while Artem Dolgopyat secured one of the three places available for individual-based gymnasts, neither part of the team nor qualified through the all-around, in the floor exercise at the same tournament.Lihie Raz received a spare berth from the women's apparatus event, as one of the female gymnasts from the individual all-around, not yet qualified, at the 2019 World Championships. However, she does not yet meet the qualification requirement set by the Israeli Gymnastics Federation.
;Men
;Women
Rhythmic
and Nicol Zelikman secured 2 quotas for the Israeli delegation by finishing third and 11th, respectively, at the 2019 World Championships all-around individual event. Also, Israel qualified a squad of rhythmic gymnasts for the group all-around by virtue of finishing within the top-five among National Olympic Committees that are not yet qualified at the 2019 World Championships. The Olympic Committee of Israel has not yet released the names of athletes to participate in the delegation.Sailing
Israeli sailors qualified three boats in each of the following classes. Gil Cohen and Noa Lasry secured a quota for the Israeli delegation by finishing 11th in the women's 470 event at the 2018 Sailing World Championships in Aarhus, Denmark. Ofek Elimelech and Mia Morris finished twelfth and fourteenth in their respective classes. Both of these results promised two more quotas for the Israeli delegation. The Olympic Committee of Israel has not yet released all the names of athletes to participate in the delegation. Beijing 2008 bronze medalist Shahar Zubari and Katy Spychakov secured places on the Israeli squad, after they topped the overall ranking of the country's selection meets, marking Zubari's fourth consecutive trip to the Games and Spychakov's Olympic debut.M = Medal race; EL = Eliminated – did not advance into the medal race
Shooting
Israeli shooter Sergy Rikhter achieved quota places for the delegation in the men's 10 metre air rifle, by winning the gold medal at the 2019 European Games. The Olympic Committee of Israel has not yet confirmed the identity of the athlete to compete in the event.Surfing
Israel will send one surfer to compete in the women's shortboard at the Games. Anat Lelior secured a qualification slot for the nation as the highest-ranked surfer from Europe and one of the top 30 surfers in the overall open division at the 2019 ISA World Surfing Games in Miyazaki, Japan. The quota is final as long as two other female athletes from Israel don't finish in qualifying positions at the 2021 ISA World Surfing Games in May 2021. In that case, the results from the 2021 World Surfing Games will prevail, and the quota from the 2019 ISA World Surfing Games will be reallocated to the next-best ranked from the respective continent.Swimming
Qualification for Israeli swimmers in the individual swimming events in Tokyo is accomplished by achieving the qualifying standards in the events, and potentially 1 at the Olympic Selection Time ): All Israeli swimmers must qualify by achieving the qualification time set by the international federation FINA at one of the target competitions defined by the Israeli Swimming Association, or one percent faster at any other competition.Israel can also enter a team for relay events with a top-12 finish at the 2019 FINA World Championships, provided that at least two swimmers in each relay event are qualified for any of the individual events.
;Men
;Women
;Mixed
;Athletes not yet qualified to the 2020 Summer Olympics by the Israeli Swimming Association
- Yakov Toumarkin - Has achieved the Olympic Qualifying Time defined by FINA at the Israeli championships 2019, but still needs to achieve the qualification recognized by the Israeli Swimming Association.