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Yosef Yekutieli (sometimes Joseph Yekutieli; (ヘブライ語:יוסף יקותיאלי); April 12, 1897 – September 25, 1982)〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.jewishsports.net/PillarAchievementBios/JosephYekutieli.htm )〕 was a prominent figure in Maccabi and an important figure in Israeli sport, founder of the Maccabiah, Israel Football Association, and the Israel Olympic Committee.〔 Yekutieli was the 1979 Israel Prize recipient for his special contribution to society and the state in sports. ==Biography== Yekutieli was born in Kartuz-Bereza in the Russian Empire (now in western Belarus) in 1897. In 1909, at the age of nine, he immigrated to Ottoman Palestine with his family.〔 He studied at the Tachkemoni Religious School in Tel Aviv and later at the David Yellin College of Education in Jerusalem. After completing his studies Yekutieli return to Jaffa working for the Eretz Yisrael Office, later playing football for the Maccabi Tel Aviv until the outbreak of World War I. In 1914 Yekutieli was drafted to the Turkish army and was appointed physical education instructor at the Mujahideen headquarters and at the public school in Nablus.〔 Yekutieli served as a Turkish-German interpreter at the German transport companies K.K. 502., until being exiled to Anatolia in 1918, along with all the other Jewish military members.〔 At the end of the war, Yekutieli returned to Jaffa working for the Eretz Yisrael Office at the Zionist Commission and Palestine Land Development Company. For two years he worked for the Israel Electric Corporation acquiring land rights for high-voltage power lines from Naharayim to Tel Aviv. Following his return to Palestine at the end of war, Yekutieli operated and ran the "Maccabi" until his death. He was the driving force behind the foundation of sport institutions in Israel, including the Eretz Israel Football Association in 1928,〔 the Federation for Amateur Sports in Palestine (now the Israeli Athletic Association) in 1931 and the Olympic Committee of Eretz Israel in 1933.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Yosef Yekutieli」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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