Hapoel Be'er Sheva B.C.

Hapoel Be'er Sheva
Nickname Future the Negev
Leagues Israeli Premier League
Founded 1965 (1965)
Arena Conch Arena
Capacity 3,000
Location Be'er Sheva, Israel
CEO Tomer Yaron
President Kfir Arazi
Team manager Asher Safonov
Head coach Rami Hadar
Team captain Ohad Cohen
Website hb7.co.il
Uniforms
Departments of Hapoel Be'er Sheva
Football Basketball Volleyball
Handball Swimming Judo

Hapoel Be'er Sheva B.C. (Hebrew: הפועל באר-שבע / בני שמעון) is a professional basketball club based in Be'er Sheva, Israel. The team plays in the Israeli Premier League.

History

20th Century

The club was founded in 1965 by Eitan Wegmann then played for Maccabi Haifa.

In 1976, along with winning the championship football team for the second time, qualified for the state team, which was then the second most important league in Israel.

During the eighties, the team climbed twice to raise the Second League. during the nineties, the group disbanded.

21st Century

In 2002 the basketball club Hapoel Be'er Sheva Started the season in the fifth league, and within three years qualified for the Second League, while leaving behind well-endowed teams of proud history such as Hapoel Tel Aviv and Hapoel Eilat.

On 2006/07 season, The team stood a one-game away from ascending to the Israeli Basketball Premier League, But lost the final 5 game series of the Liga Leumit (Israeli basketball Second League]] playoffs to Hapoel Holon, by three games to two. This series being recalled as one of the hardest-fought series in the history of the Second League. A season later Beer-Sheva was eliminated in the quarter-finals of the Second League playoffs.

In order to continue to maintain the club's youth department, association "future of the Negev", headed by Mario Levy (Chairman) and father of Rami (director), established in the summer of 2008, assumed the management of the club's youth department starting from the 2008/2009 season.

The new team began to play in the fifth league, And at the end of the season the team progressed to ourth league. A season later, the team fought relegation and in the last cycle of the league remained in the league.

At the beginning of the 2011/2012 season, the men's team was united with Beitar Be'er Sheva under the title of Municipal Be'er Sheva. The united team competed Liga Artzit (basketball third league].

Leadership of the club was assumed by local businessman Kfir Arazi, who joined during the summer. The team was re-branded under his ownership and competed again in the local fourth league.

In summer 2013 the heads of club Hapoel Be'er Sheva and Beitar / Municipal Be'er Sheva understood that success requires the full cooperation between clubs, paving the way for full convergence between the two clubs under the name "Hapoel Be'er Sheva." Hapoel Be'er Sheva finished the 2013/2014 season in first place in the Fourth League and at the end of the season returned to the Artzit (3rd) league.

In summer 2014 the club signed sponsorship deals with two major entities, the Bnei Shimon Regional Council and the Altshuler Shaham investment house thus assuring the financial longevity of the professional club. Kfir Arazi owns and steers the club.

On 29 March 2015 Be'er Sheva ensured the rise to the Liga Leumit after a home victory over on Hapoel Lod result 56:82.

The 2015-2016 season began well with Beer-Sheva consistently at the top of the league, aiming squarely at the premier league. However, after a series of critical injuries and some locker-room brouhaha the team lost its bid on the first round of playoffs and remained in the Liga Leumit (2nd league)

The 2016-2017 season began with a new coaching team, Yaniv Burger and Zach Schneider, and an almost new team which includes Jeff Allen, Jason Williams, David Shamriz, Ben Eisenhardt. The captain remains Ohad Cohen, and holding on from the previous season, Tamir Arielly.

On May 22, 2018, Hapoel Be'er Sheva won the National League title and earned promotion to the Premier League for the first time in their history, they swept Maccabi Kiryat Gat 3–0 in the best-of-five series. Storm Warren was named Finals MVP.[1][2]

Arena

Conch Arena is a multi-purpose sports arena located in Be'er Sheva and has 3,000 seats. the conch serves as the home court of the basketball team Hapoel Beer Sheva.

On 25 February 2014 the arena was inaugurated, by Rubik Danilovich, the mayor of Be'er Sheva, Shmuel Frenkel, chairman of BSL, and Itzik Larry, Chairman of Wiener, before the traditional All-Star game in the Premier League.

Season by season

Season Tier League Pos State Cup League Cup
2014–15 3 Liga Artzit 1st
2015–16 2 Liga Leumit 5th Round of 32
2016–17 2 Liga Leumit 2nd Quarterfinalist
2017–18 2 Liga Leumit 1st Quarterfinalist
2018–19 1 Premier League

Current roster

Hapoel Be'er Sheva roster
PlayersCoaches
Pos.No.Nat.NameHt.Age
G 0 Israel Gershon, Amit 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) 22 – (1995-12-05)5 December 1995
C 2 United States Israel Eisenhardt, Ben 2.08 m (6 ft 10 in) 27 – (1990-12-03)3 December 1990
G 3 Israel Kravitz, Yair 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) 19 – (1999-03-03)3 March 1999
G/F 5 Israel Cohen, Ohad (C) 1.94 m (6 ft 4 in) 31 – (1987-05-11)11 May 1987
G 6 United States Christon, Semaj 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) 25 – (1992-11-01)1 November 1992
F 7 United States Swing, Jordan 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) 27 – (1990-12-31)31 December 1990
G 8 Israel Kraunik, Chen 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) 16 – (2001-10-20)20 October 2001
PG 12 Israel Cohen-Saban, Adi 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) 24 – (1993-12-11)11 December 1993
G/F 21 United States Israel Warech, Travis 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) 27 – (1991-07-05)5 July 1991
F 24 United States Braun, Taylor 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) 27 – (1991-07-06)6 July 1991
F/C 35 United States Donaldson, Jakim 2.04 m (6 ft 8 in) 35 – (1983-09-03)3 September 1983
C 36 Israel Elias-Pour, Ram 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) 25 – (1993-08-14)14 August 1993
G 55 Denmark Israel Colman, Chanan 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) 34 – (1984-03-10)10 March 1984
Head coach
Assistant coach(es)
  • Israel Offir Vaknin
  • Israel David Elharar
Athletic trainer(s)
  • Serbia Nesovic Djordje

Legend
  • (C) Team captain
  • Injured

Updated: October 14, 2018

Depth chart

Pos. Starting 5 Bench 1 Bench 2
C Jakim Donaldson Ram Elias-Pour
PF Taylor Braun Ben Eisenhardt
SF Travis Warech Jordan Swing Ohad Cohen
SG Chanan Colman Yair Kravitz Chen Kraunik
PG Semaj Christon Amit Gershon Adi Cohen-Saban

  • The “Russian Rule” requires every team to have at least two Israelis on the floor at all times.

References

  1. "לאומית: הדרום אדום!". safsal.co.il (in Hebrew). May 22, 2018.
  2. "Hapoel Beer Sheva lift National League title". eurobasket.com. May 23, 2018.
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