Yael Arad () (born May 1, 1967) is an Israeli judoka.
She was the first Israeli to win an Olympic medal. She is widely recognized as one of Israel's most successful athletes and is credited with bringing judo into the athletic mainstream.
In 2005, she was voted the 103rd-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis.
In 1992, at the Olympic games in Barcelona, Arad became the first Israeli athlete to win an Olympic medal. She narrowly missed the gold based on a judge's decision in the half middleweight competition, but won the silver medal. She lost to Catherine Fleury of France. Arad dedicated the medal to the victims of the 1972 Munich Massacre.
In 1993, she won a gold medal in the European championships. In the world championships that year, she lost in the finals to Gella van de Caveye of Belgium, taking home a silver medal. She finished in second place at the 1993 World and European Championships and fifth at the 1995 World Championships.
At the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Arad lost to Sung Sook Jung of Korea, competing for the bronze. She went into the fight sick with a virus and ended up in fifth place.
She served as judo coach for Israel in the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
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Yael (or alternately, Jael) (Hebrew Ya'el, יעל, the Hebrew name of the Nubian Ibex) is a character mentioned in the Book of Judges in the Hebrew Bible, as the heroine who killed Sisera to deliver Israel from the troops of king Jabin. She was the wife of Heber the Kenite.
Yael received the fleeing Sisera at the settlement of Heber on the plain of Zaanaim. Yael welcomed him into her tent with apparent hospitality. She 'gave him milk' 'in a lordly dish'. Having drunk the refreshing beverage, he lay down and soon sank into the sleep of the weary. While he lay asleep Yael crept stealthily up to him, holding a tent peg and a mallet. She drove it through his temples with such force that it entered into the ground below. And 'at her feet he bowed, he fell; where he bowed, there he fell down dead'.
As a result of the killing of Sisera, God gave the victory to Israel. Yael is considered "blessed", according to the text, because of her action. Deborah's song (Judg. 5:23-27) that refers to the death of Sisera:
::"Extolled above women be Jael, ::The wife of Heber the Kenite, ::Extolled above women in the tent. ::He asked for water, she gave him milk; ::She brought him cream in a lordly dish. ::She stretched forth her hand to the nail, ::Her right hand to the workman's hammer, ::And she smote Sisera; she crushed his head, ::She crashed through and transfixed his temples. ::At her feet he curled himself, he fell, he lay still; ::At her feet he curled himself, he fell; ::And where he curled himself, let it be, there he fell dead."
Scholars have long recognised that the Song of Deborah, on the basis of linguistic evidence (archaic biblical Hebrew), is one of the oldest parts of the Bible. A similar story is explored in the deuterocanonical Book of Judith.
"Yael" as a given name was not common among Jews prior to the advent of Zionism; in contemporary Israel, however, it is among the most common female given names (see Yael (name)).
Now Jael took a stake in her left hand and approached him, saying, “If God will work this sign with me, I know that Sisera will fall into my hands. Behold I will throw him down on the ground from the bed on which he sleeps; and if he does not feel it, I know that he has been handed over.” And Jael took Sisera and pushed him onto the ground from the bed. But he did not feel it, because he was very groggy.
And Jael said, “Strengthen in me today, Lord, my arm on account of you and your people and those who hope in you.” And Jael took the stake and put it on his temple and struck it with a hammer.
And while he was dying, Sisera said to Jael, “Behold pain has taken hold of me, Jael, and I die like a woman.”
And Jael said to him, “Go, boast before your father in hell and tell him that you have fallen into the hands of a woman.”
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