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The opinions expressed on this webpage represent those of the individual authors and, unless clearly labeled as such, do not represent the opinions or policies of TBS. Can the Israeli baseball team win an Olympic medal? Can a baseball team made up mostly of professional, college and semiretired Americans bond as a lineup to win an Olympic medal? We’re about to find out. By ELLI WOHLGELERNTER  - JANUARY 10, 2020   Baseball catcher Ryan Lavarnway remembers being in his hotel room in Seoul, South Korea, getting his body worked on by Yoni Rosenblatt, the strength and conditioning coach for Team Israel.   It was the eve of the opening game of the 2017 World Baseball Classic, the quadrennial competition known as the sport’s “World Cup.” The international baseball community was shocked when Israel qualified: no one saw it coming, and no one gave the team a chance to win a…

The opinions expressed on this webpage represent those of the individual authors and, unless clearly labeled as such, do not represent the opinions or policies of TBS. The stolen missile boats Israel used in the Yom Kippur War Half a century has passed since Israel defied a French embargo and stole its own boats from Cherbourg harbor on Christmas Eve, titillating the world media. By ABRAHAM RABINOVICH  - DECEMBER 21, 2019 THE DESTROYER ‘Eilat,’ first victim of the naval missile age.(photo credit: GPO)   Fifty years ago this Christmas Eve, five small naval vessels slipped out of Cherbourg Harbor after midnight into the teeth of a force-nine gale. Ordered by Israel from a local shipyard, the “patrol boats” had been embargoed by France for political reasons. The Israelis were now running off with them.   The vessels would be refueled at sea by Israeli merchant ships moving into position along…

The opinions expressed on this webpage represent those of the individual authors and, unless clearly labeled as such, do not represent the opinions or policies of TBS. Today's selection -- from My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem.The first Women's Conference was held in 1977 in Houston, Texas. But before the main event, 56 mini conferences took place across the United States:  "The 1977 Na­tional Women's Conference in Houston ... may take the prize as the most important event nobody knows about. ...  "It all began in 1972, when the United Nations declared that 1975 would be International Women's Year -- right up there with the Year of the Child or the Year of the Family Farm. In 1974, President Gerald Ford appointed a thirty-nine-member delegation to repre­sent U.S. women, and named a man from the State Department to head it. "But the one who took on this task of finding out what issues and hopes really did represent the female…