Unable to join local Arab sports associations, Jews organized their own, such as Maccabi. Some Jews excelled in international competition, like Alphonse Halimi, a world bantamweight champion from Algiers, and Zizi Taieb, a swimming and water polo champion in Tunisia. Guido Asher starred in the Egyptian national basketball team, and Tunis born Pierre Darmon was eighth seed in the international tennis rankings of the time.
Maccabi Cairo female basketball team, 1943From the collection of Levana Zamir
Alliance basketball team from Meknes participating in M. Benhamou trophy games in Port Lyautey (now Kauitra), Morocco, 1950From the collection of Beit Hatfutsot