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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 588

Hapoel Tel Aviv

Members of the Hapoel Tel Aviv basketball team celebrate their EuroCup tournament victory, April 11, 2025, after defeating Spanish squad Gran Canaria in the finals. (YouTube screenshot)
April 12, 2025, 3:55 am
Hapoel Tel Aviv defeats Gran Canaria to win its first ever EuroCup Basketball
‘In my view we defeated Hamas,’ says Israeli squad’s owner after 2 Spanish teams beaten on way to title; Hapoel will join its crosstown rival Maccabi in next year’s EuroLeague
By ToI Staff
Former hostage Hagar Brodutch during an interview (CTV screen grab; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
February 28, 2025, 7:46 pm
Ex-hostage recalls her final moments with Tsahi Idan: ‘They told him he’d return with us’
Hagar Brodutch says on her last day in Gaza, in November 2023, their captors ‘brutally pulled him away from us and took him — to this today I don’t know where’
By ToI Staff
Hapoel Tel Aviv fans, friends and family members gather to pay respects to slain Israeli hostage Tsahi Idan during his funeral service at the Bloomfield Stadium in Tel Aviv, February 28, 2025. (Avshalom Sasson / Flash90)
February 28, 2025, 5:07 pm
‘Sorry we didn’t bring you back alive’: Hostage Tsahi Idan buried beside murdered daughter
18-year-old Maayan was killed in front of her father on Oct. 7, he was slain in Gaza; family eulogizes him, slams government at memorial held at his favorite team’s home field
By ToI Staff and JTA
Police remove a young fan, wearing a T-shirt with a slogan against National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, from a basketball game in Jerusalem, October 13, 2024. (Screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
October 14, 2024, 10:42 am
Police briefly detain teen wearing anti-Ben Gvir T-shirt at Jerusalem basketball game
Fans claim officers searched for 17-year-old because of his ‘FCK BNGVR’ T-shirt, though police quoted as saying he was removed from stadium for ‘provocative’ chants
By ToI Staff
Ofek Kimhi (Credit: Courtesy).
May 7, 2024, 4:42 pm
Ofek Kimhi, 23: Life of the party was die-hard Hapoel TA fan
Murdered by Hamas at the Supernova music festival on October 7
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Hapoel Tel Aviv against Maccabi Tel Aviv at the final of the State Cup in at the Bloomfield Stadium in Tel Aviv, June 2, 2021. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)
September 29, 2023, 12:54 am
Hapoel Tel Aviv forfeits soccer game to protest security measures raised after brawl
Following chaos at match earlier this week, fans told to arrive three hours before kick off and those without IDs turned away, infuriating team’s owner
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Hapoel Tel Aviv against Maccabi Tel Aviv at the final of the State Cup in at the Bloomfield Stadium in Tel Aviv, June 2, 2021. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)
September 26, 2023, 11:49 pm
At least 120 arrested as Tel Aviv soccer fans clash with cops ahead of rivalry match
Chaos breaks out during security checks outside Bloomfield Stadium, which turned up smoke grenades, flares and other banned objects, police say
By ToI Staff
Hapoel Tel Aviv's Jordan Mcrae rises up for a dunk against Maccabi Tel Aviv in the Drive-In Arena on June 11, 2023 (Yuval Daniel/Hapoel Tel Aviv BC)
June 12, 2023, 1:01 pm
Hapoel Tel Aviv ties basketball finals 1-1 in rowdy, historic beatdown of Maccabi
After a 45-minute delay due to fireworks set off by the crowd, Hapoel deals Maccabi its biggest loss ever against an Israeli team, taking the series to a third decisive game
By Iddo Schejter
Fire engulfing Hapoel Tel Aviv's training base in south Tel Aviv, March 5, 2023. (Screenshot/Twitter; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
March 5, 2023, 10:45 am
Arson suspected as fire rips through Hapoel Tel Aviv training base hours before game
Soccer team says its south Tel Aviv HQ suffered ‘enormous damage,’ with fears building may collapse; club’s request to postpone key game against Beitar Jerusalem rejected
By Ash Obel
Hapoel Tel Aviv basketball is now known as Hapoel Vegan Friendly Tel Aviv, with the vegan organization as the main sponsor for the team (Courtesy Hapoel Tel Aviv)
August 16, 2022, 5:02 pm
Hapoel Tel Aviv basketball team goes vegan with new sponsor
With a cry for kelp and a plea for peas, activist organization Vegan Friendly scores with latest collaboration
By Jessica Steinberg
Tottenham Hotspur's English striker Harry Kane, 2nd from left, vies for the ball with Roma's Brazilian defender Roger, center, during a friendly match between England's Tottenham Hotspurs and Italy's AS Roma at the Sammy Ofer Stadium in Haifa, July 30, 2022. (Jack Guez/AFP)
August 16, 2022, 2:04 pm
Daily Briefing Aug. 16: Tweet leads to UN dismissal; UK soccer adopts survivor story
US correspondent Jacob Magid discusses reaction to a post on rocket fire, plus Kushner’s book, as environmental reporter Sue Surkes reveals her father-in-law’s Holocaust legacy
By ToI Staff
Screen capture from video of MDA paramedic Gal Trommer, left, meeting Ilan Weinstock, whose life she saved after he collapsed at a basketball match, February 2022. (Channel 12 News)
February 23, 2022, 8:42 pm
‘Ow, enough, stop!’ Photographer meets medic who saved his life at basketball game
Ilan Weinstock had minutes to live after a cardiac arrest when Gal Trommer got to him, but by using defibrillator she brought him around in 90 seconds
By ToI Staff
Hapoel Tel Aviv soccer players celebrate a goal during an Israeli Premier League match against Beitar Jerusalem at the Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem on February 17, 2020. (Flash90)
May 10, 2020, 5:36 pm
Israeli men’s soccer teams begin full training ahead of season resumption
As lockdown restrictions are eased, squads are permitted to train with all players on the field and no social distancing; first games at end of the month
By ToI Staff and AP
In this July 26, 2018 file photo former Los Angeles Laker Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna watch during the US national championships swimming meet in Irvine, Calif. Bryant, the 18-time NBA All-Star who won five championships and became one of the greatest basketball players of his generation during a 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers, died in a helicopter crash Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020. Gianna also died in the crash. She was 13. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
January 27, 2020, 1:38 am
Israelis join world, NBA in mourning death of Kobe Bryant
PM Netanyahu calls ex-Laker ‘one of the greatest basketball players in history,’ fans stand and applaud in tribute as news of his death announced during Tel Aviv match
By ToI Staff and AP
Security camera footage shows a man running from a group of Hapoel Tel Aviv supporters after apparently yelling "Let's go Beitar" at them, on September 8, 2019. (Screen capture: YouTube)
September 8, 2019, 5:53 pm
Soccer fans suspected of throwing backer of rival team through store window
25-year-old man seriously injured by shattered glass after apparently yelling ‘let’s go Beitar’ at group of Hapoel Tel Aviv supporters
By ToI Staff
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