Israel Baseball in 2020 Olympics

Continuing the conversation of baseball in the Middle East from my last post, there is some other interesting news involving the Israeli Association of Baseball. One of my teammates from high school is representing the United States in a qualifying tournament for the 2020 Olympics and I became curious about what teams were in the 2020 Olympics for baseball since baseball hasn’t been in the Olympics for a while. It turns out Israel is one of the teams that has already qualified. They beat Italy very handily (who is usually a solid contender) and then beat South Africa to punch their ticket to Tokyo in 2020. This baseball team will be the first team sport to represent Israel since 1976. I will attach a link here to the Israel Association of Baseball (where I got this information) so anyone interested can read more.