The 96-year-old former gymnast has been given The Israel Prize because of her "exceptional achievements as an Olympic athlete".

During her career Keleti won 10 Olympic medals at Helsinki 1952 and Melbourne 1956 when she represented Hungary. 

Five of them were gold medals, and she also won three silvers and two bronzes.

Keleti had survived World War Two following the invasion of Hungary by Germany by working as a maid in a small village. 

She did not return home after Melbourne 1956 following the invasion of Hungary by the Soviet Union.

Along with 44 other athletes from the Hungarian delegation, she decided to remain in Australia and received political asylum. 

Keleti emigrated to Israel in 1957, where she was later joined by her mother and sister. 

Following her retirement from competition, Keleti worked as a physical education instructor at Tel Aviv University and the Wingate Institute for Sport in Netanya.

The award was also recognition for her contribution to the development of artistic gymnastics in Israel and the training of hundreds of physical education teachers over 50 years.

She is considered to be one of the most successful Jewish Olympic athletes of all time.

Among Jewish athletes, only swimmer Mark Spitz, a nine-time gold medallist, has been more successful in the Olympic Games.

Igal Carmi, President of the NOC of Israel, and Yael Arad, a member of the Executive Board of Directors and the chair of the Prize Committee that chose Keleti, awarded her the accolade. 

At the same time, the NOC of Israel held a welcome reception for the country's most decorated gymnast of all time, Alex Shatilov.

He won a bronze medal in the floor exercise at the 2017 European Championship held in Cluj-Napoca in Romania.

It was Shatilov's seventh medal of his career at the European Championships, while he has also won two World Championship bronze medals.