"[1] In 1948, shortly after the State of Israel was established, its request to participate in the 1948 Olympics (symbolically represented by Raya Bronstein and Frieda Berson-Lichtblau [he][15]) was denied, as Mandatory Palestine had ceased to exist and the newly formed State of Israel wasn't yet recognized by IOC.

[3] Since then, Israel won a bronze medal in five successive Summer Olympics until the streak ended in 2012.

[18] The only Jew to hold more medals than Keleti is American swimmer Mark Spitz, who won 11.

[20] Eleven members of the Israeli Olympic team were murdered by the Black September Organization during the Munich massacre.

[23] An Iranian judoka, Arash Miresmaeili, did not compete in a match against Israeli Ehud Vaks during the 2004 Summer Olympics, due to the government of Iran having taken steps to avoid any competition between its athletes and those from Israel.

The International Judo Federation conducted an investigation to see if he intentionally came in overweight in order to miss the bout.

He was officially cleared of intentionally avoiding the bout, but his receipt of the prize money raised suspicion.

[24] Saudi Arabian judoka, Joud Fahmy, forfeited her match in the 2016 Summer Olympics possibly in order to avoid competing against Israeli Gili Cohen.