2. Quitters don't win and winners don't quit. Professor Shaul Ladany

3. Who are you, Shaul Ladany ? -Born April 2, 1936,in Belgrade, former Yugoslavia -Survived the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1944, when he was eight years old. He was one of the few of Yugoslavia's 70,000 Jews who survived the Holocaust. -He is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU). -Speaks nine languages, holds eight patents, has written over 100 scientific papers and published 13 books among them King of the Road - From Bergen-Belsen to the Olympic Games.

4. -He is an Israeli race walker. He set in 1972 and still holds the world record in the 50-mile walk (7:23:50), and the Israeli national record in the 50-kilometer walk (4:17:07). He is also a former world champion in the 100-kilometer walk. -As one of the best race walkers in the world in the 1960s and 1970s, he represented Israel at the 1968 Mexico City Games, where he finished in 24th place in the 50-km walk, and at the ill-fated 1972 Munich Games. -In 1972, he survived the Munich Massacre where 11 Israeli sportsmen were killed by members of Black September, a Palestinian terrorist group.

5. A few years ago, he set the world record in the 100 mile walk for the 70+ year old age group, completing a race in Ashtabula, Ohio, in 21hr 45min 34sec

6. In 2007, Shaul Ladany was awarded the Pierre de Coubertin Medal for outstanding services to the Olympic Movement and was cited as an unusual person with unusual outstanding sports achievements during a span covering over four decades.

7. -Shaul Ladany has been inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. The induction ceremony will be held at the Wingate Institute on July 17 th,2013, to coincide with the 19th World Maccabiah Games.

11. Asked if it would be fair to call him the ultimate survivor, Ladany laughed and answered: "I don't know about that. What I can say is that in my life there has never been a dull moment."

12. Toulon

14. With president Shazar

15. Towards the end of the walking project from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv,1966 Getting treatment after finishing 50 miles in a 100 mile competition in Colombia, 1967

16. With Danny Kaye

17. Olympic village, Mexico City October 1968

18. Walking from Jerusalem to Beer Sheva, April 1968

19. Maccabiah games,1969 General Aharon Doron ארווין מפקד נחל, גבעתי

20. 3,000 m at the Maccabiah 1969

21. With the Maccabiah torch, 1969 From Modiin to Jerusalem ממודיעין לירושלים

22. The first day of his walking project from Metula to Eilat,1970

23. 1971

24. During the race at the Munich Olympic games,1972

25. Inside the stadium,100 m from the finish line Munich,1972

30. 1974

34. "You need a certain type of mental attitude: a willingness to take punishment, to have a lack of comfort and pain, to continue and continue.

35. His autobiographical book – King of the Road - From Bergen-Belsen to the Olympic Games, the Hebrew version

37. Since turning 50, Shaul has marked birthdays by walking a kilometer for each year of his life. So on his most recent anniversary he walked around Omer, near Be'er Sheva, in Israel's southern Negev for 11hours and 11 minutes. At this point he is passing our street. Hi Ervin !

38. The Birthday walking 5.4.2013

40. He is determined to keep going far into the future. And when you consider the life of one of the great survivors of a turbulent century, surely no-one would bet against him. Kevin Connolly BBC New Nazi camp survivor Shaul Ladany still setting the pace

41. 26 May 2013 http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaul_Ladany מילים : יורם טהרלב לחן : יאיר קלינגר Kom vehithalech baaretz Lyrics : Yoram Taharlev Music : Yair Klinger