{"id":31290,"date":"2011-08-25T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/farmar-lands-in-israel-im-excited\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T08:39:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T05:39:22","slug":"farmar-lands-in-israel-im-excited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/farmar-lands-in-israel-im-excited\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmar Lands in Israel: \u201cI\u2019m excited\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><FONT size=2 face=Arial>By Amy Samin<\/FONT> <BR><\/P> <P><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv\u2019s hottest new acquisition, Jordan Farmar, landed in Israel Thursday afternoon ahead of the training camp scheduled to begin next week. Nearly one hundred excited fans were waiting to welcome him at Ben Gurion Airport. <\/FONT><\/P> <P align=center><IFRAME height=345 src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/frWc3cnj_t4\" frameBorder=0 width=420 allowfullscreen><\/IFRAME><\/P> <P><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Although Farmar, who has Jewish roots, has visited Israel before, it was easy to see his amazement over the reception he received as a Maccabi player: \u201cI can\u2019t believe this welcome. They\u2019re excited, I\u2019m excited. It\u2019s fun to see so many fans here at the airport.\u201d<\/FONT><\/P><FONT size=2 face=Arial><\/FONT> <P align=center><IMG style=\"WIDTH: 425px; HEIGHT: 283px\" border=1 hspace=0 alt=\"\u05d2'\u05d5\u05e8\u05d3\u05df \u05e4\u05e8\u05de\u05d0\u05e8 \u05e0\u05e2\u05d8\u05e3 \u05d1\u05e2\u05e9\u05e8\u05d5\u05ea \u05d0\u05d5\u05d4\u05d3\u05d9\u05dd\" align=baseline src=\"https:\/\/www.maccabi.co.il\/mtpic\/IMG_8587-1.jpg\"><BR><\/P> <P><A href=\"https:\/\/www.samintranslations.com\/\" target=_blank><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial><U>www.samintranslations.com<\/U><\/FONT><\/A><FONT size=2 face=Arial> <\/FONT><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv\u2019s hottest new acquisition, Jordan Farmar, landed in Israel Thursday afternoon.  He was greeted by close to 100 cheering fans at Ben Gurion Airport. \u201cI can\u2019t believe this welcome.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-31290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-54"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":496322,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31290\/revisions\/496322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31290"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=31290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}