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Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball team players raise the championship plate after defeating Hapoel Holon at the final of the Israeli Basketball Premier League in Tel Aviv, June 14, 2018 (Roy Alima/Flash90)
June 15, 2018, 12:21 pm
Maccabi Tel Aviv wins league championship after 4-year drought
Club comes out firing on all cylinders against lethargic Holon, taking home nation’s best national title for 52nd time
By TOI staff
Masoud Shojaei. (CC BY-4.0 Tasnim/Wikipedia)
May 14, 2018, 2:56 pm
Iran World Cup squad includes stars banned for playing against Israel
Masoud Shojaei and Ehsan Haji Safi had been barred for life by regime after appearing for Greek club Panionios against Maccabi Tel Aviv
By AFP
Jordi Cruyff, the Dutch boss of Maccabi Tel Aviv, who is to step down at the end of the current season, March 2018. (YouTube screenshot)
March 28, 2018, 1:05 pm
Jordi Cruyff to step down as Maccabi Tel Aviv boss
Club gives no reason for Dutchman’s departure after six years of steering soccer team to three Israeli championships
By AFP
Masoud Shojaei. (CC BY-4.0 Tasnim/Wikipedia)
August 27, 2017, 5:57 pm
Iran soccer captain barred from qualifier after playing Israeli club
Amid FIFA investigation, Iranian Football Federation denies move is punishment for Masoud Shojaei’s appearance in game against Maccabi Tel Aviv
By AFP
English soccer coach Steve McClaren seen in 2012 while coaching Dutch squad Twente. (CC BY 2.0, Thomas Rodenbücher, Wikipedia)
August 21, 2017, 4:35 pm
Ex-England soccer coach joins Maccabi Tel Aviv
Israel’s most historically successful club announces Steve McClaren will join as a coaching consultant
By AFP
Masoud Shojaei. (CC BY-4.0 Tasnim/Wikipedia)
August 18, 2017, 6:04 pm
Iran player breaks silence over ban for playing Israelis
Masoud Shojaei says he had no intention to offend and his priority is always to be ‘a suitable representative for the country’
By AFP
Iranian soccer player Ehsan Haji Safi, number 28, seen in a game between the Greek club Panionios and Maccabi Tel Aviv on August 4, 2017. (Screen capture: YouTube)
August 14, 2017, 10:25 am
Iran denies soccer players who faced Israelis banned
In letter to governing body FIFA, Iranian officials refute announcement that two members of national squad were booted for playing against Maccabi Tel Aviv
By TOI staff and JTA
Iranian soccer player Ehsan Haji Safi, number 28, seen in a game between the Greek club Panionios and Maccabi Tel Aviv on August 4, 2017. (Screen capture: YouTube)
August 11, 2017, 2:43 pm
Iranians rage at banning of soccer stars who played against Israel
Thousands of Persian speakers take to social media to urge football umbrella FIFA to censure Iran’s own national team over the spat
By JTA
Israel's Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer team play Greece's Panionios in Greece on August 3, 2017. (Screen capture: YouTube).
August 10, 2017, 3:46 pm
Iran soccer teams drop duo for playing against Israel’s Maccabi
Haji Safi and Masoud Shojaei won’t wear national shirt again after playing home leg versus Tel Aviv team
By AFP
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with his wife Sara and Likud party members at a rally in his support, in Tel Aviv, on August 9, 2017. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
August 10, 2017, 2:09 pm
42% of Israelis agree with Netanyahu that media is against him
French Jews call for extradition of Palestinians accused of terror attack 35 years ago; Islamic Waqf denies Israeli forces stole documents in Temple Mount raids
By TOI staff
Players from Israel's Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer team great their counterparts from Greece's Panionios ahead of their soccer match in Greece on August 3, 2017. (Screen capture: YouTube)
August 4, 2017, 6:28 pm
Iran condemns its soccer players for match with Israeli team
Denunciation comes after two Iranian nationals on Greece’s Panionios played against Maccabi Tel Aviv
By AP
Jonah Bolden, #43, playing for the UCLA against the Oregon Ducks at Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles, March 2, 2016. (Harry How/Getty Images)
July 25, 2017, 4:56 am
Philadelphia 76ers draft pick to play for Maccabi Tel Aviv
Jonah Bolden, a 6-foot-10 forward, signs 3-year deal with top Israeli squad that contains NBA opt-out clause
By JTA
Former Bnei Herzliya
July 9, 2017, 5:36 pm
Maccabi Tel Aviv signs first Arab Israeli, but butchers welcome
Team says picture welcoming Karam Mashour, with Arabic letters written backwards, was corrected ‘within minutes’
By TOI staff
A dejected soccer fan watching Hapoel Tel Aviv lose as the team falls to second division, on May 13, 2017. (Roy Alima/FLASH90)
May 15, 2017, 4:19 pm
Rivals’ funeral for relegated Tel Aviv soccer club draws red card
Maccabi fans accused of incitement after carrying coffin, burning effigy to celebrate downfall of cross-town team Hapoel
By TOI staff
The US Embassy in Tel Aviv (photo credit: CC BY-Krokodyl/Wikimedia Commons/File)
May 15, 2017, 3:48 pm
An embassy of peace
The Hebrew-language media can’t figure out if the US mission will relocate from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, or what consequences such a move would have
By Adiv Sterman
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