Israel national handball team

In the winter of 2006 the team had failed to qualify to the 2007 world championship after finishing third at the qualifications – behind Austria and Finland.

In the winter of 2007 Israel again failed to qualify, this time to the 2008 European Championships. Despite an impressive home win 30:29 against the very strong team of Serbia, Israel lost twice to Macedonia, and finished again finished third, behind Serbia and Republic of Macedonia and ahead of Luxembourg.

In the following winter Israel met Serbian again, at the 2009 World Championships Qualifying. This time it lost both games to Serbia, and finished second (out of three) after beating The Faroe Islands at both games.

In the 2010 European Championships Qualifying, held in 2008 and 2009, Israel was drawn into group 5, together with the world champions, Germany, Slovenia, Belarus and Bulgaria.

Israel lost both games to Slovenia, Belarus and Germany, and only won both games against Bulgaria.

The team's captain was Idan Maimon, and its leading players were Avishay Smoler of German team TBV Lemgo, Chen Pomerantz, Tom Matalon, Gal Avraham and Goalkeeper Leonid Durashenko.

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts		GER	SLO	BLR	ISR	BUL
Germany	8	8	0	0	300	191	+109	16		—	38–30	38–27	36–24	42–11
Slovenia	8	6	0	2	293	221	+72	12		26–27	—	38–26	40–27	47–20
Belarus	8	4	0	4	253	233	+20	8		23–25	32–36	—	38–31	36–18
Israel	8	2	0	6	222	269	−47	4		21–40	28–36	28–31	—	29–20
Bulgaria	8	0	0	8	168	322	−154	0		29–54	23–40	19–40	28–34	—

Squad for the 2021 World Men's Handball Championship – European Qualification.

Head coach: Oleg Boutenko

No. Pos. Name Date of birth (age) Height App. Goals Club 1 GK Moshe Elimelech (1992-01-15) 15 January 1992 1.83 m 13 0 Irony Rehovot 2 P Snir Natsia (1999-08-26) 26 August 1999 2.00 m 9 5 Maccabi Rishon LeZion 3 P Daniel Shkalim (1992-09-17) 17 September 1992 1.86 m 47 54 Ramat Hasharon HC 7 RW Amit Gal (1992-08-11) 11 August 1992 1.79 m 37 39 Ramat Hasharon HC 11 LB Niv Levy (1993-06-08) 8 June 1993 1.86 m 53 110 Hapoel Ashdod 14 GK Dan Tepper (1994-03-04) 4 March 1994 1.88 m 29 0 JS Cherbourg 18 RW Tal Hershkowitz (1992-08-12) 12 August 1992 1.85 m 47 88 Hapoel Ashdod 21 CB Eden Gingihashvili (1996-08-18) 18 August 1996 1.83 m 3 4 HC Holon 22 LB Ram Turkenitz (1995-09-26) 26 September 1995 1.90 m 37 61 HK Varberg 23 CB Yonatan Dayan (2000-01-06) 6 January 2000 1.85 m 0 0 VfL Gummersbach 24 RW Amit Stelman (1993-01-09) 9 January 1993 1.79 m 59 127 Maccabi Rishon LeZion 29 P Yossi Appo (1993-10-01) 1 October 1993 1.90 m 28 26 Ramat Hasharon HC 39 LB Adir Cohen (1998-10-27) 27 October 1998 1.95 m 16 35 Pfadi Winterthur 53 LW oz Hamami (1992-05-10) 10 May 1992 1.80 m 29 50 Hapoel Rishon LeZion 66 CB Yoav Lumbroso (2000-07-15) 15 July 2000 1.72 m 1 3 ThSV Eisenach 83 LW Gil Pomeranz (1991-11-17) 17 November 1991 1.82 m 54 133 Ramat Hasharon HC