{"id":31776,"date":"2011-12-13T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/maccabi-visits-at-schneider-hospital-blatt-it-gives-us-strength\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T08:40:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T05:40:57","slug":"maccabi-visits-at-schneider-hospital-blatt-it-gives-us-strength","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/maccabi-visits-at-schneider-hospital-blatt-it-gives-us-strength\/","title":{"rendered":"Maccabi Visits at Schneider Hospital. Blatt: \u201cIt gives us strength\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><FONT size=2 face=Arial>By Amy Samin<\/FONT> <BR><\/P> <P><FONT size=2 face=Arial>After last night\u2019s dramatic victory over Maccabi Rishon Lezion, the players and coaches of Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv continued the long-standing traditional Chanukah-time visit to the children at Schneider Hospital this morning (Tuesday). The players, coaches and members of the club distributed signed posters, tee shirts, bags, pens, and a variety of other gifts.<\/FONT> <\/P> <DIV class=article_content align=center><IFRAME height=330 src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hyLeUa-WKB0\" frameBorder=0 width=425 allowfullscreen><\/IFRAME><\/DIV> <P align=center><BR><\/P> <P><FONT size=2 face=Arial>\u201cOn the one hand, it\u2019s a lot of fun to go to see the children and bring them gifts, but on the other hand it breaks your heart. All of us would rather see all of these kids healthy and happy every day, like they\u2019re happy while we\u2019re here visiting them,\u201d said head coach <B>David Blatt<\/B>. \u201cI understand from the doctors and the staff here that our visit helps a lot, and that makes me happy. There\u2019s no doubt that a visit like this energizes us. There\u2019s nothing like bolstering someone else to help make you stronger as well. The most important thing is for them to feel better; may they have a Chanukah miracle. Every good deed you do gives you strength and inspiration to go on in every area, including basketball.\u201d<\/FONT> <BR><\/P> <P align=center><FONT size=2 face=Arial><B><IMG border=1 hspace=0 alt=\"\" align=baseline src=\"https:\/\/www.maccabi.co.il\/mtpic\/20111213%200097.jpg\"><\/B><\/FONT><\/P> <P><FONT size=2 face=Arial><B>Guy Pnini<\/B> added: \u201cIt\u2019s a break from all of our craziness. It\u2019s great that we have the opportunity to come and make these kids happy. I have a special sensitivity to kids and it\u2019s tough for me here, but I\u2019m glad that I can make them happy, and that we as a team can cheer them up. It\u2019s like a kind of time out; we each have some time to think and to take things in proportion.\u201d<\/FONT> <BR><\/P> <P><FONT size=2 face=Arial><B>Theo Papaloukas<\/B> gave others the chance to enter the children\u2019s rooms before him and explained: \u201cI thought it would be better to let the other players go ahead of me, because I don\u2019t speak the language and it\u2019s better if the children see the Israeli players, especially in the delicate situation they are in now. I\u2019m very happy that we came to visit here, you can see how happy the children are.\u201d<\/FONT> <\/P> <P align=center><IMG border=1 hspace=0 alt=\"\" align=baseline src=\"https:\/\/www.maccabi.co.il\/mtpic\/20111213%200093.jpg\"><BR><\/P> <P><FONT size=2 face=Arial>\u201cThey are fighting for their lives here, and we bring them a few moments of happiness. Moments like this make you realize how much other people are blessed who have normal lives without difficulties like this. It helps you to appreciate the things you tend to take for granted. Maccabi does a lot to give back to the community, and I think it\u2019s wonderful.\u201d<\/FONT> <BR><\/P> <P><FONT size=2 face=Arial><B>Yogev Ohayon<\/B> noted: \u201cIt\u2019s a very emotional situation; I personally tend to melt around all of the kids we see here when I notice them smiling and so happy. We may give them something, but they certainly give us something, too.\u201d About the upcoming game against Anadolu Efes, the point guard said, \u201cThere\u2019s no doubt this visit gives us renewed energy before the game. I hope we\u2019ll be able to utilize the satisfaction that we\u2019re getting here today on the basketball court. It was important for us to win yesterday after two losses; Thursday is a completely different story. We have two days to prepare and I believe that we will prepare in the best possible way.\u201d<\/FONT><\/P><FONT size=2 face=Arial><\/FONT> <P align=center><IMG border=1 hspace=0 alt=\"\" align=baseline src=\"https:\/\/www.maccabi.co.il\/mtpic\/20111213%200111.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><BR><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv made their traditional Chanukah visit to the children at Schneider Hospital in Petach Tikvah.  Ohayon: \u201cWe may give them something, but they certainly give us something, too.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-31776","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\/31776","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=31776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":496600,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31776\/revisions\/496600"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31776"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=31776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}