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Source: http://www.cbc.ca/sports/basketball/nba/alley-oop-to-aliyah-israel-basketball-1.4396251
Hoops in the Holy Land: African-American Basketball Players Embrace Israel
(CBC Sports) Myles Dichter - In the last 40 years, more than 800 African-Americans have relocated to Israel to play in the Israeli Basketball Premier League. David Goldstein, chief operating officer for USports, the governing body for university sports in Canada, has written a new book about these players, Alley-Oop to Aliyah. Many of these American players went to Israel begrudgingly, if only to showcase themselves for a bigger contract elsewhere. But many have stayed, living as culturally Jewish, while more than 20 eventually converted to Judaism.