The president of Hungary’s Jewish federation Mazsihisz has sent a letter to Prime Minister Viktor Orbán thanking him for the government’s backing of Hungary’s organization of the 15th European Maccabi...
Tamás Deutsch said that although the Hungarian team demonstrated unparalleled sportsmanship throughout the games, the real triumph lay in the infrastructural alterations which took place in Budapest.
The total 100 medals won by Hungary made the country the most successful European country at the games. They were followed by Germany, the UK and Latvia.
Alfred Hajós became the first Jewish and the first Hungarian Olympic champion.
PM Orbán received the delegation of the European Maccabi Games and leaders of the Hungarian Jewish community in his office yesterday and said he was glad that the games have “returned to their European roots”.
The 15th Maccabi European Games begin in Budapest on July 29th and will continue through until August 7th.
The government has allocated over 30 billion HUF (90.7m EUR) for infrastructure development projects required to host the European Maccabi Games in Budapest in 2019