Maccabi World Union

The Maccabi World Union (Eng. Maccabi World Union; MWU ) is an international Jewish sports association. It comprises around 400 000 members from 65 countries are organized. The association's headquarters is located in the city of Ramat Gan near Tel Aviv ( Israel). President Jeanne Futeran. The largest hosted by the Maccabi World Union sporting event is held every four years in Israel takes place and, like the Olympic Games designed Maccabean Games ( Maccabiah ).

The MWU was founded in 1921 at the 12th Zionist Congress in Karlsbad, first president was the German Heinrich Kuhn. Your seat they had first in Vienna and in 1926 he moved to Brno in 1929 to Berlin. In 1929, the Maccabi World Union already 100,000 members in 22 regions. 1935 had the seat can be moved forcibly to London and in 1946 moved the dressing over to Palestine.