Gili Mossinson ( he, גילי מוסינזון; born 29 September 1978 in
Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the ...
,
Israel
Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...
) is an Israeli
basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...
player who played for several teams in the Israeli Basketball League including
Hapoel Tel Aviv,
Maccabi Rishon Letzion and
Hapoel Galil Elyon
Hapoel Galil Elyon ( he, הפועל גליל עליון), also known as Hapoel Nofar Energy Galil Elion for sponsorship reasons, is an Israeli basketball club. The team competes in the Israeli Basketball Premier League, the top tier of Israeli b ...
. He came out as bisexual in 2016.
Mossinson played for both Israel U18 (1996) and Israel U21 (1998), and played a single game in
Israel's national basketball team, against Denmark.
His father,
Yigal Mossinson
Yigal Mossinson (alternate spellings include Igal Mossinsohn and Yigal Mosenzon) (25 December 1917 – 1 May 1994) was an Israeli novelist, playwright, and inventor. He was the author of the Hasamba children's book series.
Among his many award ...
, was an author and playwright and laureate of the
Prime Minister’s Prize for Authors.
References
1978 births
Living people
Israeli men's basketball players
Jewish men's basketball players
Israeli Jews
Israeli Basketball Premier League players
Ironi Ramat Gan players
Ironi Ramat HaSharon basketball players
Hapoel Galil Elyon players
Power forwards (basketball)
Maccabi Rishon LeZion basketball players
Israeli LGBT sportspeople
Bisexual sportspeople
LGBT basketball players
Big Brother (franchise) contestants
Sportspeople from Tel Aviv
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