The Israeli Football Hall of Fame is
Hall of Fame for the best
association football players in the history of the
Israeli football, initiated by
sports channel
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The first sport ...
in cooperation with the
Israeli Football Players Association in
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 ...
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Financed by the
Israeli Sports Betting Council. A special panel of media covering the football industry in Israel formed in March and April 2009 and selected fifty players to be added to the Hall of Fame, from an initial list of a hundred candidates. Names of the players entered the Hall of Fame a month later.
Danny Inbar was the program presenter.
Among the special committee members there were members of sports men, sport broadcasters, sports writers and culture officials, including:
Guy Cohen,
Jeremy Weitz,
Moti Kirschenbaum,
Yoram Arbel,
Gavri Levi,
Avi Meller,
Shlomi Barzel,
Dani Dvorin,
Amir Efrat,
Zuhir Bahlul, and more.
The fifty members of the Hall of Fame chose
Mordechai Spiegler,
Eyal Berkovic
Eyal Berkovic (or Berkovich, he, אייל ברקוביץ'; born 2 April 1972) is an Israeli former professional association footballer, football coach, team owner and television talk show presenter.
As a player he was an attacking midfielde ...
,
Haim Revivo
Haim Michael Revivo ( he, חיים מיכאל רביבו; born 22 February 1972) is a retired Israeli football player who played as a midfielder, and a businessman.
Sports career
Revivo is Jewish and was born to a traditional Mizrahi Jewish fa ...
,
Eli Ohana
Eliyahu "Eli" Ohana ( he, אלי אוחנה; born ) is an Israeli former football player and the former chairman of Israeli club Beitar Jerusalem. He played as forward or midfielder for Beitar Jerusalem, KV Mechelen, S.C. Braga, and the I ...
and
Uri Malmilian
Uri Malmilian ( he, אורי מלמיליאן; born April 24, 1957) is an Israeli former football player and current manager.
Early life and playing career
Born in the neighbourhood of Mamilla in West Jerusalem, Malmilian had a memorable playi ...
as the best five Israeli football players in the Israeli football history. Also, they selected
Mordechai Spiegler as the greatest football player in Israel, and
Eli Ohana
Eliyahu "Eli" Ohana ( he, אלי אוחנה; born ) is an Israeli former football player and the former chairman of Israeli club Beitar Jerusalem. He played as forward or midfielder for Beitar Jerusalem, KV Mechelen, S.C. Braga, and the I ...
goal in the match against
Australia in the
1990 FIFA World Cup qualification
The qualification competition for the 1990 FIFA World Cup was a series of tournaments organised by the six FIFA confederations. Each confederation — the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), Confederation of African Football (CAF), CONCACAF (Nort ...
was selected as the most important goal of all time. In addition, the Israeli national team's game against
Sweden in the
1970 FIFA World Cup was elected the best game in history, while
Emmanuel Scheffer who managed the national team won the World Cup Lifetime Achievement Award.
Inductees
The following list includes the footballers who were named in the Hall of Fame:
References
External links
Sport5 Hall of Fameofficial website
Israeli Football Players Associationofficial website
{{Football in Israel
History of football in Israel
Association football museums and halls of fame
Halls of fame in Israel
Israeli sports trophies and awards