Pictured above: (L-R) Martin Groothius, director Dani Menkin, Ron Carner, IJSHOF chairman Alan Sherman, film star Tal Brody, Jason Shrinsky, David Weissman and Harvey Leff.
IJSHOF chairman Alan Sherman hosted a group of current and former HOF Executive Board members and guests at a January screening of the documentary film, “On The Map”, in Palm Beach, Florida.
The film is the fascinating story of the Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball team defeating both Russia’s and Italy’s perennial winners to capture the 1977 European Championship. It was a sports victory just four years removed from the 1973 Yom Kippur War that figuratively and spiritually put Israel “on the map”.
The documentary, directed by Dani Menkin and featuring American-born Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball superstar Tal Brody, combines the pulse-pounding action of high-stakes sports with an incendiary political situation at the height of the Cold War. The Wall Street Journal called it a “sports movie at its best”. “Fascinating” wrote the L.A. Times.
