Israel Open Championship – February O Festival

Final preparations are in progress for the Israel Sport Orienteering Association’s annual Israel Open Championship on the weekend of February 25-26. This two-day competition in February attracts hundreds of competitors from Israel and abroad. Together with the  Negev Desert Championship on the preceding weekend, the ISOA offers a week full of  great orienteering. See details in the …

2010 Winter Cup. Great Weather. Great Results.

Two consecutive days of orienteering in two very different  types of terrain determined the winners of the ISOA 2010 Winter Cup. The cumulative results from two days ultimately rewarded those orienteers who were consistent in their athletic and orienteering abilities both in the badlands of Park Eshkol in southern Israel and in the maze of cactus …

Visitor Story – UK

A different Christmas present! This year Neil and I went to Israel for Christmas to see our grandchildren. To add to the attraction of seeing everyone, we added orienteering. There was a 2-day event, on the Friday and Saturday just after Christmas. We had late starts on the Friday. There were basically 6 courses: short, …

Visitor Story – Spain

Trobar el Nord a Israel. La llengua Hebreua s’ecriu d’esquerra a dreta i amb un caracters desconeguts per nosaltres. Sortosament l’orientació és un esport que només necesita números y simbols (marcats per la IOF), i no depen de la llengua propia de cada país. Això si, a Israel hi ha un domini molt extès del anglès, i això facilita tota …

Israel orienteering experience

Visitor Story – Sweden

Varm start på säsongen – i Israel Orientering, Norrköping Vägen mot toppen 2010 började i nya terränger och höga höjder i Israel. – En häftig upplevelse, säger OK Kolmårdens Linnea Lidström. Kolmårdskvartetten Linn Bränneby, Frida Aspnäs, Linnea Lidström och Malin Leijon-Lind bytte 15 minusgrader och höga snövallar i Sverige mot 20 plusgrader och nya landskap i …