STAPLES Center to Host Historic Exhibition Game Between Clippers and Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv

Proceeds to Benefit Migdal Ohr, the World's Largest Orphanage

(LOS ANGELES, CA) - Hoping to repeat one of the most successful basketball exhibitions in the history of New York, the Los Angeles Clippers today announced a STAPLES Center preseason game between the Los Angeles Clippers and Israel's most famous professional basketball team, Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv.

The game, which will be played on October 20, will benefit Migdal Ohr, the world's largest orphanage in Northern Israel and home to nearly 7,000 orphaned, impoverished, underprivileged and new immigrant children.

Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv last appeared in America in 2007, when 18,000 New Yorkers came together at Madison Square Garden to watch the Israeli team play an exhibition game against the hometown New York Knicks. That game turned out to be the most successful exhibition basketball game in the history of the Garden. STAPLES Center and the Clippers believe a similar success will happen this year in the City of Angels.

In 2005, Maccabi became the first international team to win on North American soil when they defeated the Toronto Raptors at Air Canada Centre.

Mike Dunleavy, general manager and head coach of the Clippers said, "It's an honor for the city, our franchise and team to be able to help raise funds for such an amazing place like Migdal Ohr. NBA basketball is beloved throughout the world, particularly by children; so it's only fitting that the Clippers would do their part to help this at-risk group of kids."

"I want to congratulate Migdal Ohr, Donald Sterling and the Los Angeles Clippers on this wonderful endeavor of supporting the kids in Israel," said The Honorable Jacob Dayan, Consul General of Israel. "This unique game is going to bring even closer the enhanced cooperation of Israel and the Los Angeles community."

The American Friends of Migdal Ohr's Executive Vice President Robert Katz said, "After the huge success of our exhibition in Madison Square Garden last season, in which the entire city of New York rallied around the Migdal Ohr children's cause, we had a feeling that Los Angeles would have the same sort of enthusiasm."

Israeli Prize Laureate Rabbi Y.D. Grossman founded Migdal Ohr in 1972 with 18 children in a small one-story building in Northern Israel. Today Migdal Ohr is roughly the size of the UCLA campus, where each day thousands of children from all over the world are fed, clothed, housed, educated and nurtured on to productive lives. Migdal Ohr runs a network of schools, providing academic and vocational studies while integrating new immigrant children into Israeli society through specialized curricula and after-school programs.

Tickets are available at migdalohrusa.org

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