Tom Be'eri is a member of the Israeli 2008 Olympic Team and will compete in Swimming

Guy Barnea is a member of the Israeli 2008 Olympic Team and will compete in Swimming

Gal Nevo is a member of the Israeli 2008 Olympic Team and will compete in Swimming.

Competed for Hapoel Jerusalem club team... two-time national senior team member... fifth place in the Junior European Championship... 200 IM national champion....placed 11th at the 2005 Short Course European Championships in the 1500 free.

Itay Chama is a member of the Israeli 2008 Olympic Team and will compete in Swimming

Guy Starek was born on May 3, 1965, in Jerusalem. Starek, whose father was also a marksman, started shooting at the age of 12 and says it was a natural choice for him “since there were always weapons in the house.” He started out with Hapoel Jerusalem and now shoots for Hapoel Ma'abarot.

He made his international debut in 1984, and only four years later set a world record in the men's 50-meter free rifle prone competition. Starek placed seventh in the 50-meter free rifle prone event at the 1995 World Championships and fourth at the 1998 World Championships. He also won the 50-meter free rifle at the 1997 World Cup in Milan.

Nufar Edelman is the first woman to represent Israel in the sport of sailing at the Olympics after winning selection last week.

Nufar Edelman, whose mother Shibolet Edelman is the current Melbourne shlicha of Jewish youth movement Habonim Dror, won selection after a stunning performance to clinch seventh spot at the World Championships in Cascais, Portugal last week. The top-10 place-getters automatically qualify for Beijing.

The current Israeli champion won her first national title at the age of 11 and will compete in the Laser Radial – a single-handed dinghy – competition at the Beijing Olympics in 2008.

Nufar Edelman lives on kibbutz Rosh Hanikra in Israel’s northwest and was introduced to the sport by her father, who manages the community’s sailing club.

Nika Kornitzky was born in Israel on August 18, 1982.

Nika took her first steps with the Hapoel Tel Aviv sailing club, competing in the 420 model event. Along with her former partner, Karin Gal, she took the sailing world by storm. The young team took third place in the 1997 World Championship, when Kornitzky was just fifteen years old. That same year they won the World Team Championship and seemed set to conquer the 420 event.

Vered Buskila was born. May 23, 1983, in Bat-Yam, Israel.

Buskila is part of the highly promising Israeli 470 model women's sailing team along with Nika Kornitzky. Vered learned her sailing chops in Hapoel Bat-Yam and was soon recognized as a major talent. Her partnership with Kornitzky was an arranged marriage of sorts, hatched by the Hapoel sports organization. They emerged as the premier duo in Israel with a string of spectacular results for such a young team. In 2001, the team sailed in Ireland at the European Championships and took third place thus pulling of a major upset. In 2002 the twosome finished tenth in a credible performance and they created a major international buzz due to their relative youth. In the 2003 World Championship they went one better by achieving a ninth place finish.

Shahar Zuberi (Hebrew: שחר צוברי; born September 1st, 1986 in Eilat, Israel) is an Israeli windsurfer and Olympic bronze medalist, surfing in the "Neil Pryde" RS:X discipline. She won her medal as a member of the Israeli 2008 Olympic Team.

Udi Gal was born in Tel Aviv on June 6, 1979.

Udi has competed with Gideon Kliger from the very start of his international sailing career, and the two have become a formidable pair. In 1998, they won the European Youth Championship and created a major buzz. In 2001 they proved they are major players on the senior circuit as well, finishing second in the European Championship in Ireland. In 2002 and 2003 they came close to capturing a World Championship medal but finished fourth and fifth respectively. Another fifth place finish, and victory in a tournament in Barcelona, placed Kliger and Gal among the favorites in Athens.

Gideon Kliger was born on March 30, 1980, in Tel-Aviv, Israel.

Kliger and Udi Gal made quite a splash in the sailing world with their 1998 victory at the European Youth Championship. In 2001 they narrowly missed out on the gold in the senior European Championship held in Ireland and came in second. In 2002 they came in fifth in the World Championship, in 2003 they finished fourth and this year it was fifth again as they continued to chase that elusive World Championship medal. Gidi and Udi won the prestigious Barcelona meet in 2004 but have suffered a series of setbacks in the last few weeks before the Olympics.

Veronica Witberg is a member of the Israeli 2008 Olympic Team and will compete in Rhythmic Gymnastics

Alona Dvornichenko is a member of the Israeli 2008 Olympic Team and will compete in Rhythmic Gymnastics

Maria Savenkov is a member of the Israeli 2008 Olympic Team and will compete in Rhythmic Gymnastics

Racheli Vigdorchik is a member of the Israeli 2008 Olympic Team and will compete in Rhythmic Gymnastics