Hapoel Hevel Modi'in () is a professional basketball club based in
Hevel Modi'in Regional Council
Hevel Modi'in Regional Council () is a regional council (Israel), regional council located partly in the Shephelah region and partly in the Central Coastal Plain region of the Central District (Israel), Central District of Israel. It was founded i ...
of
Israel
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in West Asia. It Borders of Israel, shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the north-east, Jordan to the east, Egypt to the south-west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. Isr ...
. The team plays in the
Israeli National League.
History
Hapoel Hevel Modi'in have played most of their years in
Liga Alef
Liga Alef () is the third tier of the Israeli football league system. It is divided into two regional divisions, north and south.
History
League football began in Israel in 1949–50, a year after the Israeli Declaration of Independence. Howe ...
, the fourth and lowest level tier in Israeli basketball, until the 2017–18 season, where they have qualified to the
Liga Artzit
Liga Artzit (, lit. ''Country League'') is the defunct third division of Israeli Football League, beneath its highest division Premier League and the second division Liga Leumit. Before being cancelled in 2009, it was run by the Israel Football A ...
as the Liga Alef champions. On June 11, 2017, They have appointed
Pini Gershon
Pinhas "Pini" Gershon (; born 13 November 1951), is an Israeli former professional basketball player and coach. He won three top-level European-wide club championships as the head coach of Maccabi Tel Aviv. He won the FIBA SuproLeague champions ...
as Hevel Modi'in new general manager. He has resigned from his position on August 8, 2019.
In the 2018–19 season, Hevel Modi'in have won the
2019 Liga Artzit championship title, earning a promotion to the
Israeli National League for the first time in their history.
Current roster
Notable alumni
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Jimmy Hall
Jimmy Hall (born April 26, 1949) is the lead singer and harmonica player for the Southern rock group, Wet Willie.
Hall was born in Birmingham, Alabama, and reared in Mobile, Alabama. He first gained recognition in 1970 as the lead vocalist, sa ...
(born 1994)
References
External links
Eurobasket profileSafsal profileFacebook page
{{Israeli Basketball National League
Basketball teams in Israel