By skyforbes Israel is a developed wealthy country, comparable to european countries.
If we look at european countries with similar population size as Israel, for example Belgium, Portugal, Sweden, Austria, Switzerland, Greece, Czech Republic etc, they all excel at some of the popular sports and are solid in a lot of sports overall, also at the Olympics. I’m talking about sports like:
- football
- basketball
- (ice) hockey
- handball
- tennis
- cycling
- formula 1
- winter sports
- swimming
- track and field
- martial arts
Etc
Israel isn’t good in most of these sports, despite being a developed country like these european countries.
Why?