ROCKVILLE, Md. — Midway through the opening period of a youth game here Sunday night, Daniel Haim Lonkry knocked in a rebound. In the second period, his teammates Fadi Haj and Adam Ayoub added goals to tie the score, 3-3.

The three teenagers play for a hockey team from northern Israel, and if that does not seem remarkable enough, consider this: Lonkry is Jewish, Haj is Christian, and Ayoub is Druse, a member of a religious group that grew out of Islam.

The players and their 21 teammates are visiting the Washington area this week as members of the Canada Israel Hockey School, which opened five years ago to help the sport expand in Israel.

The school, a recreational program, is housed at the Canada Center, a rink in Metula, a town in the Galilee region. Its enrollment of 450 and its $250,000 annual budget will probably double next year, said Levav Weinberg, a farmer who founded the program and serves as its general manager.