{"id":500136,"date":"2016-12-25T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-25T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/watch-maccabi-players-visiting-children-at-the-hospital\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T09:29:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T06:29:53","slug":"watch-maccabi-players-visiting-children-at-the-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/watch-maccabi-players-visiting-children-at-the-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Maccabi players visiting children at the hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"responsive-video-container\" style=\"position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; margin-bottom: 20px;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Qyfi8DvQUgU\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div style=\"direction: ltr; text-align: justify;\"> \t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Maccabi FOX Tel Aviv players <\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">arrived to<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> Schneider hospital for their annual visit. Per tradition, they walked around the different children sections of the hospital, handing out gifts, hugs, pictures and of course posing for selfies with one goal in mind \u2013 to put a smile on the children\u2019s faces.<\/p>\n<p> \t\u201cWe\u2019re happy to be here, it\u2019s already a tradition\u201d, the team\u2019s captain, Guy Pnini, said, \u201cfor me it\u2019s my 8<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0year doing this. Hanukkah is a holiday that lights our lives and that\u2019s what we\u2019re trying to do \u2013 bring some light to their lives. For us, it adds perspective. Their victory is the real victory\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> \tYogev Ohayon added: \u201cWe meet beautiful children and re-attach to them every year. We came to make them stronger and<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">instead<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> they made us stronger\u201d.<\/span><br \/> \t\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"direction: ltr; text-align: justify;\"> \t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Some of the team\u2019s business partners took part as well. Clothing company and title sponsors, FOX, contributed clothes, while Marchello <\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Enchilini<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">, the owner of Franchi Real Estate bought candy packages for the kids. Domino\u2019s pizza handed out t-shirts, towels and pizza coupons.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual Maccabi players hospital visit was emotional as ever. Yogev Ohayon: \u201cWe came to make them stronger and instead they made us stronger\u201d. Guy Pnini: \u201chappy to spread light wherever we can\u201d. Sonny Weems: \u201cHappy to see their smiles\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":500135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-500136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500136","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=500136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":500138,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500136\/revisions\/500138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500136"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=500136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}