February 26, 2018, Updated April 22, 2020
Fans celebrate the victory of basketball team Maccabi Tel Aviv after winning the European Cup, 1977. Photo by Moshe Shai/FLASH90
• Maccabi Tel Aviv wins the European Basketball Championship.
• Israeli director Moshé Mizrahi wins an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film for “Madame Rosa.”
• AfiMilk introduces the world’s first electronic milk meter.
• Rummikub, invented by a Romanian who immigrated to Israel in the 1930s, becomes the bestselling game in the United States.
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