Yizre'el Rugby Club is an Israeli amateur rugby club based in

Yizre'el Yizre'el () is a kibbutz in north-eastern Israel. Located in the Jezreel Valley near Afula, it falls under the jurisdiction of Gilboa Regional Council. In it had a population of . History After the Bahri dynasty, Mamluks took control of the ar ...

History

The club was founded in 1967 by a group mainly consisting of

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ns. The nickname likely refers to those origins: the '-kies' suffix (pronounced roughly like 'keys') is possibly from an

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part of speech indicating diminutive, though in most cases in Afrikaans it is spelled -tjies.

Honours

* Israeli Rugby Union Championship ** 2013 * Israeli Rugby Union Cup ** 2013

External links

Club website
Rugby union teams in Israel {{Israel-sport-stub