Israel competed in the Summer Olympic Games for the first time at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland.
Famous quotes containing the words israel and/or summer:
“We Americans are the peculiar, chosen people—the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“I swear,
I most solemnly swear, on all the bric-à-brac
of summer loves, I know
you not.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)