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The Auburn University men’s bas-
ketball team traveled to Israel last
weekend for a 10-day Birthright-
style trip, likely the fi rst of its kind
for a full Division I college or profes-
sional team.

Coined “Birthright for College
Basketball,” the trip features some
of Israel’s most famous histori-
cal and tourist sites — from the
Western Wall and the Dead Sea to
the Yad Vashem Holocaust memo-
rial museum — plus three exhibi-
tion games against teams of players
from the top echelon of Israeli bas-
ketball. The Tigers, who won the
Southeastern Conference champi-
onship last season, played Israel’s
Under 20 National Team on Aug.

2 in Jerusalem and will also play
Israel’s All-Star Select Team in Tel
Aviv on Aug. 7 and Israel’s National
Team on Aug. 8 in Tel Aviv.

The trip also includes the team
Bruce Pearl celebrates with his team after defeating the Alabama Crimson
Tide at Auburn Arena on Feb. 1.

participating in a basketball clinic
for Jewish, Muslim, Christian and
Druze teens.

In addition, the itinerary includes
the Tigers having lunch with the
coach of the Palestinian National
Team in Bethlehem.

Auburn’s Jewish coach Bruce
Pearl is one of the more outspokenly
Jewish and pro-Israel coaches in
college sports. He co-founded the
Jewish Coaches Association, which
hosts an annual breakfast for Jewish
NCAA basketball coaches at March
Madness. He considers coaching in
the 2009 Maccabiah Games to be a
career highlight, alongside making
it to the NCAA Tournament’s Final
Four with Auburn in 2019.

NCAA teams are allowed an over-
seas trip once every four years.

The University of Connecticut
men’s team visited Israel in 1998,
and the Toledo women’s team and
Wheaton’s men’s team followed
suit in 2011 and 2016, respectively.

Pearl said that his vision is for the
trip to become a repeat occurrence
— and to expand it to the United
Arab Emirates. He fl oated changing
its name to the “Abraham Accords
Cup,” a reference to the series of
normalization agreements between
Israel and some of its neighboring
Arab countries in recent years.

— Jacob Gurvis
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Auburn University Men’s Basketball Team Embarks on ‘Birthright for
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