Misha Zilberman of Israel has been granted a visa to enter Indonesia to compete in the Total BWF World Championships, according to a report late yesterday from the Associated Press. The report cited Olympic Committee of Israel Secretary General Gili Lustig as saying that the Badminton World Federation intervened.
Zilberman was scheduled to fly to Jakarta yesterday with his mother and with BWF Secretary General Thomas Lund. He has been in Singapore for two weeks waiting for his visa.
Click here to read the AP report from the website of Israeli newspaper Haaretz
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