Daniel Rowing Centre
The Daniel Rowing Centre is Israel’s leading rowing facility. Located on the bank of the Yarkon River in Tel Aviv, it’s the home of Israel’s national rowing team, and a leader in rowing, kayaking and sailing classes for children and youth.
Competitive Rowing is a unique Olympic sport, with a growing popularity in Israel. Requiring technique, focus and precision, rowing shapes your body, builds stamina, and develops strength. In crew boats and skiffs, it’s the fastest muscle-powered boat in the world. The Daniel Rowing Centre offers top professional instructors, quality equipment, and a thriving social atmosphere – for kids, adults and premier athletes alike. Join us for exciting action on the water!
Open Sea Kayaking is challenging, and requires technique and courage. It’s ideal for leisure and touring, as well as extreme action & fun. The Daniel Rowing Centre is home to one of Israel’s leading kayaking clubs, headed by Rami Gil and his internationally qualified instructors. The club offers trial lessons and courses in Sea kayaks, Olympic kayaks and Surfski. Guided group excursions are scheduled throughout the week, and long distance adventures in Israel and abroad are organised several times a year.
Dragon Boats offer a ‘do it together’ team experience – all in a boat, operating it as one. It’s a unique team and leadership development platform, for both personal and group skills. The Yarkon River offers an unforgettable city-nature adventure. Suitable for both large groups and small teams. Pupils, students, Hi-Tech firms, Banks, IDF and police units, families, tourists – join us for an unforgettable outing!
9 years ago we launched a program for youth at risk and with special needs. We named it ‘Sea of Friends’. Combining emotional experiences in the open sea, and processing them with cognitive tools, is at the heart of this program. Each meeting integrates three parts: An opening workshop, a nautical activity in the boats, and a processing workshop. We also developed unique programs for people with disabilities: visually impaired, Parkinson’s sufferers, mental illnesses, autistic children, and breast cancer survivors. Hundreds of participants later, it’s time to tell and share. Partly because, yes, we’re proud, but mostly so that you will help us reach more audiences – more groups of kids and juveniles who could benefit, more people with special needs who can be included.
Linda Streit
Founder & Educator
Linda Streit was born in London and immigrated to Israel in 1978. She recently retired after over 35 years of being a Drama Studies lecturer at the Department of English and American Literature at Tel Aviv University since 1985 and aims to make the rich world of international theatre come alive for Israeli youngsters. Linda is the co-founder of the Daniel Rowing Centre, a world-class rowing and nautical studies centre in Tel Aviv, built in memory of her son, Daniel, who died in a car crash in 1993. Streit is also a governor of Tel Aviv University since 1990, a member of the International Board of Friends of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and of the Audit and Executive Committees of the Cameri Theatre in Tel Aviv, the London Society for Theatre Research, the International Federation for Theatre Research, and the Israel national Golf team.
Mamanet
Established in 2005 Mamanet –mothers Cachibol- league is the largest social – sports league specifically for mothers in Israel today.
Today with thousand of mothers-players, in over 90 cities across Israel, Mamanet is now spreading in many countries such as Austria, Italy, Greece, Cyprus & the US with additional countries pending.
Mamanet Israel is cooperating with “Hapoel”- the largest Israeli sport organization.
“Mamanet has the potential to change the sports society and the life of women for the better”! Harry Bauer, President of CSIT: “This was my first statement after having experienced Mamanet and it remains absolutely valid”. CSIT is acting globally as an accelerator for this movement.
The most important goal from a sports perspective is to hold a large international Mamanet Championship as part of of the 5th CSIT World Sports Games 2017 in Riga.
In Mamanet every mother can no barrier of age heights or weight
***Women age of 30 and up can participate the league
Mamanet is the only sports league for mothers.Mamanet allows mothers to revive their younger days as athletes, or experience being part of a sports league for the first time. In mamanet mothers of students in participating schools represent their children school with sportsmanship and pride The league is based on children’s elementary, junior high and high schools,. Mothers bring back to school the championship cup to the school.
Mamanet is a combination of sports and community. In Mamanet- Mothers demonstrates school pride, good sportsmanship, friendly and professional competition, fair play & a positive physical activity.
Mamanet runs across all populations :secular ultra-orthodox immigrants, new comers etc
Moran Samuel
Athlete at Daniel Rowing Centre
Moran was a professional basketball player until she suffered a stroke in her spine five years ago that left her paralyzed from the chest down. Nonetheless, she rehabilitated herself and played basketball on the men’s handicapped team, since there was no women’s team, attaining great achievements in international competitions. As of November 2010, Moran began single skiff para- rowing at the Daniel Rowing Center, and at the end of May 2011 she won the bronze medal at the World Rowing Championship in Munich, and bronze again at the World Rowing Championship in Bled, Slovenia. At the Paralympic Games in London 2012 she finished 5th. 2014 was a great year and Moran won the Silver medal at the world rowing championship in Amsterdam. Since then she has gone on to win championships in European and world rowing for the disabled, and her greatest achievement to date is winning the Bronze medal at the Paralympic Games in Rio, 2016. Moran is married and has a son called Arad (“Bronze”, in Hebrew).
Ofra Abramovich
Founder at Mamanet
Founder of Mamanet – Mothers league, which is the largest women’s league and the 3rd most popular sport branch in Israel. Mamanet has thousands of active mother-players who participate in close to 1000 teams located in municipalities all over Israel, Cyprus, Austria, Italy, USA, Canada and Switzerland and more. Ofra devotes her life to promote Mamanet life’s philosophy where mothers should be able to belong to a sport team and thereby lead a healthy and active life. As such, those mothers become a personal example and a role model for their children and families. Mothers who participate in Mamanet have proved their ability to build a strong community which become a platform to emphasize school pride, good sportsmanship, professional competitions and enhancing community building and mutual aid. This model was not only been adopted by mothers from around the world, but also received recognition from government agencies, the UN, sport agencies such as CSIT, the National Olympic committee, health & lifestyle companies and more. The Ministry of Science is currently conducting a 3 years research Mamanet league increases social capital & promotes health and wellbeing Ofra holds a Bachelor degree in Psychology from Queens College, NYC and lives with her husband and 2 daughters in Kfar Saba, Israel, where she is also serves as the chairwoman of the women’s Volleyball Club Hapoel Kfar Saba.