Israel consolidated their first day lead to top the 2011 European Team Championships Third League with 490 points in the Icelandic capital of Reykjavik on Sunday.
They will be joined in the Second League in two years time by Cyprus, who had a strong second day to overtake Moldova.
Cyprus ended the weekend with a total of 469 points, 29 ahead of their principal rivals for promotion, while hosts Iceland were a distant fourth with 411 points.
Israeli high jumper Danielle Frenkel, a 2010 European Athletics Championships finalist, had to deal with very windy conditions but cleared every height up to and including 1.84m with her first attempt before failing at a season’s best of 1.90m.
Likewise, her compatriot Yevgeniy Olkhovskiy has vaulted 5.47m indoors but found 5.05m on this occasion was enough to win and keep his country’s momentum going.
Israel's Olga Lenskiy won the 200m in a wind-assisted 24.26. She had finished second in the 100m.
Olga's mother, Israel’s evergreen 100m hurdler Irina Lensky – who turned 40 last Sunday and who is now gunning for the world veteran’s best of 13.20 - ran with Olga in the 4x100m.
Cyprus had three victories on the second day - the best arguably being Apostolos Parellis' win in the discus with 58.27m – but consistently high finishes meant they overtook Moldova despite the latter having some of the best individual performers.
Perhaps the best mark of the weekend came from Marina Marghieva in the women’s hammer.
As the only thrower in the field to have gone over only 70 metres, the Moldovan was expected to win easily and did so by nearly seven metres when she threw 67.41m in the third round.
The 2010 European Athletics Championships 3000m bronze medallist Ion Luchianov won his specialist event in 8:54.70; running well within himself after also taking the 1500m on Saturday.
Azerbaijan’s Ruslan Abbasov made it a sprint double following his 100m success on Saturday when he clocked 20.99 for the 200m although, unfortunately, there was no wind-reading.