Jewish leader thanks PM for support of European Maccabi Games

Andras Heisler, president of Hungary’s Jewish federation Mazsihisz, has sent a letter to Prime Minister Viktor Orbán thanking him for the government’s backing of Hungary’s organisation of the 15th European Maccabi Games, the PM’s press chief said on Wednesday.

“We have accomplished what we could never have done without the support of the Hungarian government. We organised the 15th European Maccabi Games,” Bertalan Havasi quoted Heisler as writing in the letter.

“We’ve just finished hosting Europe’s biggest mass sporting event and all of us — from the prime minister to our athletes to our volunteers — can be proud of this.”

Heisler highlighted the security surrounding the event, the “21st-century comfort” provided by the Ludovika campus of the National University of Public Service, the funding allocated towards the event and praised “the patience of Budapest’s residents”.