{"id":152314,"date":"2025-08-17T17:37:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T17:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/?p=152314"},"modified":"2025-08-17T17:37:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T17:37:21","slug":"step-by-step-to-achieve-our-goals-hapoel-haemeks-goldenberg-and-henry-arrive-in-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/en\/step-by-step-to-achieve-our-goals-hapoel-haemeks-goldenberg-and-henry-arrive-in-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Step by step to achieve our goals: Hapoel HaEmek’s Goldenberg and Henry arrive in Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hapoel HaEmek welcomed a pair of players to Israel on Sunday afternoon as Lucas Goldenberg and Cameron Henry arrived for the upcoming 2025\/26 season. Goldenberg has played in Israel\u2019s top division with Hapoel Afula (10p\/5.9r\/2.8a) and Hapoel Galil Elyon the past two years as the naturalized Israeli will now join Sharon Avrahami\u2019s squad for the new campaign. <\/p>\n

Henry played the past two years in Germany\u2019s G Pro A League after having attended Indiana State and Lincoln Memorial. The 26-year old guard averaged 17.4 points, 5.2 rebounds and 2.7 assists per game while shooting 44.3% (81\/183) from beyond the arc and will now look to take a step up in Israel top league.
\n

\"\"

Lucas Goldenberg – Photo credit: Yehuda Halickman<\/p><\/div>
\n\u201cI\u2019m really looking forward to this challenge in my career and to come back to Israel. I want to do the best I can to help the team,\u201d Goldenberg told The Sports Rabbi just after landing.<\/p>\n

As for goals, Goldenberg spoke about what he expects both personal and as a team, \u201cAs always, I want to try and help the team and try to do the best job that I can. I think as a team we need to go step by step. We made some good signings and we always have to be around 6th to 8th place, but the smartest thing to do is not to rush, go step by step and that way we can achieve our goals.\u201d
\n

\"\"

Lucas Goldenberg – Photo credit: Yehuda Halickman<\/p><\/div>
\nThe forward, who had played for Afula knows the district well, \u201cI\u2019m very happy to be here as I know the area. I am thankful that Hapoel HaEmek showed a lot of interest in me, including coach Sharon Avrahami, so I am very happy about that. When you feel the team wants you and are appreciated, that is very important and I don\u2019t take that for granted at this point in my career.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI am excited to be here,\u201d Cameron Henry said to The Sports Rabbi as he arrived in Israel. \u201cI spent two years in Germany so this is a nice change and we have a nice staff. This should be a good team and a good year.\u201d
\n

\"\"

Cameron Henry – Photo credit: Yehuda Halickman<\/p><\/div>
\nHenry added about what he sees as the team goals for new campaign, \u201dJust have the best team chemistry on and off the court and hopefully get the most wins.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hapoel HaEmek welcomed a pair of players to Israel on Sunday afternoon as Lucas Goldenberg and Cameron Henry arrived for the upcoming 2025\/26 season. Goldenberg has played in Israel\u2019s top division with Hapoel Afula (10p\/5.9r\/2.8a) and Hapoel Galil Elyon the past two years as the naturalized Israeli will now join Sharon Avrahami\u2019s squad for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":152332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6435,6436,5796],"class_list":["post-152314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-holy-land-hoops","tag-cameron-henry","tag-hapoel-haemek","tag-lucas-goldenberg","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\nStep by step to achieve our goals: Hapoel HaEmek's Goldenberg and Henry arrive in Israel - Sports Rabbi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/en\/step-by-step-to-achieve-our-goals-hapoel-haemeks-goldenberg-and-henry-arrive-in-israel\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Step by step to achieve our goals: Hapoel HaEmek's Goldenberg and Henry arrive in Israel - Sports Rabbi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hapoel HaEmek welcomed a pair of players to Israel on Sunday afternoon as Lucas Goldenberg and Cameron Henry arrived for the upcoming 2025\/26 season. Goldenberg has played in Israel\u2019s top division with Hapoel Afula (10p\/5.9r\/2.8a) and Hapoel Galil Elyon the past two years as the naturalized Israeli will now join Sharon Avrahami\u2019s squad for the […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/en\/step-by-step-to-achieve-our-goals-hapoel-haemeks-goldenberg-and-henry-arrive-in-israel\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Sports Rabbi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-08-17T17:37:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_5265-1.jpeg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"577\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Joshua Halickman\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Joshua Halickman\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportsrabbi.com\\\/en\\\/step-by-step-to-achieve-our-goals-hapoel-haemeks-goldenberg-and-henry-arrive-in-israel\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportsrabbi.com\\\/en\\\/step-by-step-to-achieve-our-goals-hapoel-haemeks-goldenberg-and-henry-arrive-in-israel\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Joshua Halickman\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportsrabbi.com\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/10150053309b5bf124d40c3812a32bf0\"},\"headline\":\"Step by step to achieve our goals: Hapoel HaEmek’s Goldenberg and Henry arrive in Israel\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-08-17T17:37:21+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportsrabbi.com\\\/en\\\/step-by-step-to-achieve-our-goals-hapoel-haemeks-goldenberg-and-henry-arrive-in-israel\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":442,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportsrabbi.com\\\/en\\\/step-by-step-to-achieve-our-goals-hapoel-haemeks-goldenberg-and-henry-arrive-in-israel\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportsrabbi.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/08\\\/IMG_5265-1.jpeg\",\"keywords\":[\"Cameron Henry\",\"Hapoel HaEmek\",\"Lucas Goldenberg\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Holyland Hoops\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/sportsrabbi.com\\\/en\\\/step-by-step-to-achieve-our-goals-hapoel-haemeks-goldenberg-and-henry-arrive-in-israel\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportsrabbi.com\\\/en\\\/step-by-step-to-achieve-our-goals-hapoel-haemeks-goldenberg-and-henry-arrive-in-israel\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportsrabbi.com\\\/en\\\/step-by-step-to-achieve-our-goals-hapoel-haemeks-goldenberg-and-henry-arrive-in-israel\\\/\",\"name\":\"Step by step to achieve our goals: Hapoel HaEmek's Goldenberg and Henry arrive in Israel - Sports Rabbi\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportsrabbi.com\\\/en\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportsrabbi.com\\\/en\\\/step-by-step-to-achieve-our-goals-hapoel-haemeks-goldenberg-and-henry-arrive-in-israel\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportsrabbi.com\\\/en\\\/step-by-step-to-achieve-our-goals-hapoel-haemeks-goldenberg-and-henry-arrive-in-israel\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportsrabbi.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/08\\\/IMG_5265-1.jpeg\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-08-17T17:37:21+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportsrabbi.com\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/10150053309b5bf124d40c3812a32bf0\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/sportsrabbi.com\\\/en\\\/step-by-step-to-achieve-our-goals-hapoel-haemeks-goldenberg-and-henry-arrive-in-israel\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportsrabbi.com\\\/en\\\/step-by-step-to-achieve-our-goals-hapoel-haemeks-goldenberg-and-henry-arrive-in-israel\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportsrabbi.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/08\\\/IMG_5265-1.jpeg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportsrabbi.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/08\\\/IMG_5265-1.jpeg\",\"width\":1280,\"height\":577,\"caption\":\"Lucas Goldenberg - Photo credit: Yehuda Halickman\"},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportsrabbi.com\\\/en\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportsrabbi.com\\\/en\\\/\",\"name\":\"Sports Rabbi\",\"description\":\"The Home of Israeli Sports\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportsrabbi.com\\\/en\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportsrabbi.com\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/10150053309b5bf124d40c3812a32bf0\",\"name\":\"Joshua Halickman\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportsrabbi.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/12\\\/WhatsApp-Image-2020-12-08-at-10.13.06-150x150.jpeg\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportsrabbi.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/12\\\/WhatsApp-Image-2020-12-08-at-10.13.06-150x150.jpeg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportsrabbi.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/12\\\/WhatsApp-Image-2020-12-08-at-10.13.06-150x150.jpeg\",\"caption\":\"Joshua Halickman\"},\"description\":\"Joshua Halickman, The Sports Rabbi is the founder of the website and has been covering Israeli sports since 2004. The Sports Rabbi has gone to over 4,000 live sporting events in 25+ countries looking for the most exciting and intriguing stories. Josh has lectured to tens of thousands across the globe about the Zionism through Israeli Sports. You can follow Josh on Twitter @thesportsrabbi\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportsrabbi.com\\\/en\\\/author\\\/thesportsrabbiisrael\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Step by step to achieve our goals: Hapoel HaEmek's Goldenberg and Henry arrive in Israel - Sports Rabbi","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/en\/step-by-step-to-achieve-our-goals-hapoel-haemeks-goldenberg-and-henry-arrive-in-israel\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Step by step to achieve our goals: Hapoel HaEmek's Goldenberg and Henry arrive in Israel - Sports Rabbi","og_description":"Hapoel HaEmek welcomed a pair of players to Israel on Sunday afternoon as Lucas Goldenberg and Cameron Henry arrived for the upcoming 2025\/26 season. Goldenberg has played in Israel\u2019s top division with Hapoel Afula (10p\/5.9r\/2.8a) and Hapoel Galil Elyon the past two years as the naturalized Israeli will now join Sharon Avrahami\u2019s squad for the […]","og_url":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/en\/step-by-step-to-achieve-our-goals-hapoel-haemeks-goldenberg-and-henry-arrive-in-israel\/","og_site_name":"Sports Rabbi","article_published_time":"2025-08-17T17:37:21+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1280,"height":577,"url":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_5265-1.jpeg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Joshua Halickman","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Joshua Halickman","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/en\/step-by-step-to-achieve-our-goals-hapoel-haemeks-goldenberg-and-henry-arrive-in-israel\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/en\/step-by-step-to-achieve-our-goals-hapoel-haemeks-goldenberg-and-henry-arrive-in-israel\/"},"author":{"name":"Joshua Halickman","@id":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/10150053309b5bf124d40c3812a32bf0"},"headline":"Step by step to achieve our goals: Hapoel HaEmek’s Goldenberg and Henry arrive in Israel","datePublished":"2025-08-17T17:37:21+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/en\/step-by-step-to-achieve-our-goals-hapoel-haemeks-goldenberg-and-henry-arrive-in-israel\/"},"wordCount":442,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/en\/step-by-step-to-achieve-our-goals-hapoel-haemeks-goldenberg-and-henry-arrive-in-israel\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_5265-1.jpeg","keywords":["Cameron Henry","Hapoel HaEmek","Lucas Goldenberg"],"articleSection":["Holyland Hoops"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/en\/step-by-step-to-achieve-our-goals-hapoel-haemeks-goldenberg-and-henry-arrive-in-israel\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/en\/step-by-step-to-achieve-our-goals-hapoel-haemeks-goldenberg-and-henry-arrive-in-israel\/","url":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/en\/step-by-step-to-achieve-our-goals-hapoel-haemeks-goldenberg-and-henry-arrive-in-israel\/","name":"Step by step to achieve our goals: Hapoel HaEmek's Goldenberg and Henry arrive in Israel - Sports Rabbi","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/en\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/en\/step-by-step-to-achieve-our-goals-hapoel-haemeks-goldenberg-and-henry-arrive-in-israel\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/en\/step-by-step-to-achieve-our-goals-hapoel-haemeks-goldenberg-and-henry-arrive-in-israel\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_5265-1.jpeg","datePublished":"2025-08-17T17:37:21+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/10150053309b5bf124d40c3812a32bf0"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/en\/step-by-step-to-achieve-our-goals-hapoel-haemeks-goldenberg-and-henry-arrive-in-israel\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/en\/step-by-step-to-achieve-our-goals-hapoel-haemeks-goldenberg-and-henry-arrive-in-israel\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_5265-1.jpeg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_5265-1.jpeg","width":1280,"height":577,"caption":"Lucas Goldenberg - Photo credit: Yehuda Halickman"},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/en\/","name":"Sports Rabbi","description":"The Home of Israeli Sports","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/10150053309b5bf124d40c3812a32bf0","name":"Joshua Halickman","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2020-12-08-at-10.13.06-150x150.jpeg","url":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2020-12-08-at-10.13.06-150x150.jpeg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2020-12-08-at-10.13.06-150x150.jpeg","caption":"Joshua Halickman"},"description":"Joshua Halickman, The Sports Rabbi is the founder of the website and has been covering Israeli sports since 2004. The Sports Rabbi has gone to over 4,000 live sporting events in 25+ countries looking for the most exciting and intriguing stories. Josh has lectured to tens of thousands across the globe about the Zionism through Israeli Sports. You can follow Josh on Twitter @thesportsrabbi","url":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/en\/author\/thesportsrabbiisrael\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}