Hapoel Rehovot was a

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team from the city of

Rehovot Rehovot ( he, רְחוֹבוֹת ''Rəḥōvōt'', ar, رحوڤوت ''Reḥūfūt'') is a city in the Central District of Israel, about south of Tel Aviv. In it had a population of . Etymology Israel Belkind, founder of the Bilu movement, ...

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 ...

. Hapoel was the biggest handball club in Israel until the mid-1980s; they won 13 championships and 5 Israeli cups. They also competed 9 times in the

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, but never managed to pass the second round. The last time the club competed in a European competition was in the 1995-96 EHF Cup Winners' Cup. After some bad years in the late 1990s, the team was dissolved in 2002.

Titles

*Israel Champions (13): 1957, 1961, 1964, 1965, 1968, 1973, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1982, 1983, 1984 *Israel Cup Holder (5): 1979, 1980, 1982, 1984, 1985

References

Handball clubs established in 1955 Handball clubs in Israel 1955 establishments in Israel Hapoel Sport in Rehovot {{israel-sport-stub