{"id":192784,"date":"2026-10-06T13:34:25","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T13:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/?p=192784"},"modified":"2026-10-06T13:34:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T13:34:25","slug":"shahar-amir-returns-to-hapoel-holon-with-bigger-role-bigger-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/en\/shahar-amir-returns-to-hapoel-holon-with-bigger-role-bigger-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"Shahar Amir Returns to Hapoel Holon With Bigger Role, Bigger Goals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hapoel Holon will open its Basketball Champions League campaign on Tuesday evening when it faces French side Cholet in a \u201chome\u201d game in Samokov, Bulgaria. As the Purples begin a new chapter, one familiar face will be looking to play a much bigger role.<\/p>\n

Shahar Amir is back in Holon for his third stint with the club, but this time he returns through the front door.<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old guard enjoyed a breakout 2025\/26 season with Hapoel Galil Elyon, averaging 12.8 points per game while knocking down 2.3 three-pointers at a 42.2% clip. More importantly, Amir helped Galil Elyon survive a difficult season and remain in the top flight, all while the team dealt with the devastating loss of teammate Raz Adam, who was killed in a car accident in May.<\/p>\n

Now, after one of the most challenging and meaningful seasons of his career, Amir is back in Holon, a club he has never stopped feeling connected to and believes he is ready to take another step forward.
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Shahar Amir – Photo Credit: Yehuda Halickman<\/p><\/div>
\n\u201cIt\u2019s really great, I\u2019m excited to be back,\u201d Amir told The Sports Rabbi during Hapoel Holon\u2019s Media Day at the Toto Hall in Holon. \u201cIt already feels very much like home. I\u2019m really happy to be here. I\u2019m happy to be back in the center of the country, living in my home in Tel Aviv with my new wife. It\u2019s great to be back at this club, this arena, with these fans and this entire organization.\u201d<\/p>\n

There has been plenty to celebrate for Amir over the past few months. He got married during the summer and enjoyed a honeymoon before turning his attention back to basketball.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was an amazing experience, a perfect wedding, exactly as we imagined it,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was a summer full of celebrations, with the wedding and the honeymoon, while also training and doing everything else. It was really perfect. A lot of energy.\u201d<\/p>\n

But once the season tipped off, Amir\u2019s focus quickly shifted toward what he hopes to accomplish on the court, \u201cFrom a team perspective, obviously to continue to represent Hapoel Holon the way that I and the veteran Israeli guys here know how to. My personal goal is really to have a bigger impact and bring the style of play I had in the Galil here to Hapoel Holon. But the team goals are really what drive us. We want to be a team that fights, bites and is aggressive, and a team that will make the Holon fans proud.\u201d<\/p>\n

A new coach, a new identity<\/h3>\n

Holon enters the season with Predrag Krunic at the helm and Amir has quickly bought into the identity the veteran coach is trying to establish, \u201cWe\u2019ve only been together for a little over a month since the season started and right now I\u2019m really, really enjoying it. He brings something different, something I haven\u2019t seen before. I like the intensity and the emphasis on defense, and I think the players they brought to the team fit his style of play very well.\u201d
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Shahar Amir – Photo Credit: Yehuda Halickman<\/p><\/div>
\nOne of those new teammates is Adama Sanogo, who has quickly impressed Amir both on and off the court, \u201cFirst of all, he\u2019s an amazing person. It\u2019s really fun being around him. He\u2019s always very positive and smiling. Professionally, he\u2019s simply a star. He\u2019s incredibly talented, has very, very good hands and moves extremely well for someone his size. He\u2019s competitive, he wants to win, he wants the ball. It\u2019s simply fun to play with him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Holon has also added Daniel Ravitz as its new professional director and Amir believes his experience can help the club reach its goals, \u201cI spoke with Daniel Ravitz before I joined the club this time around and he\u2019s also around us and with us every day. He had several very impressive years at Hapoel Be\u2019er Sheva, and I\u2019m happy he\u2019s with us.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s truly a very high-level professional. I\u2019m sure he\u2019ll help the team. I don\u2019t know exactly how, because I don\u2019t get involved in what happens behind the scenes or who is responsible for what, but I\u2019m sure a professional like Daniel Ravitz will help us a lot in achieving our goals.\u201d<\/p>\n

From point guard to elite shooter<\/h3>\n

Amir\u2019s development has been built largely around one of the most important skills in modern basketball: shooting.<\/p>\n

Last season, he emerged as one of the league\u2019s most reliable Israeli perimeter threats, but the ability to consistently knock down shots is something he has spent years developing.
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Shahar Amir and Daniel Ravitz – Photo Credit: Yehuda Halickman<\/p><\/div>
\n\u201cI work on my shooting every single day. I shoot every day and practice it every day. I feel like I\u2019m a shooter who needs that work. How did I learn? Honestly, just through a huge number of repetitions. I started my career in the youth ranks as a point guard, actually. A coach I had in 10th grade told me, \u2018You need to be a shooter,\u2019 and from then on I just worked on my shooting, over and over again. It\u2019s something I know how to do and enjoy doing, and I maintain it consistently.\u201d<\/p>\n

That work has helped transform Amir into a dangerous perimeter weapon something he showcased in one of Galil Elyon\u2019s biggest victories last season.<\/p>\n

With 2.9 seconds remaining against Hapoel Tel Aviv in Kfar Blum, Amir intercepted the ball in the backcourt and raced the length of the floor before finishing with a layup to give Galil a sensational victory.<\/p>\n

\u201cI actually just saw that play now. It\u2019s a game where you\u2019re playing Hapoel Tel Aviv at home in the Galil, with all the energy and the great atmosphere we had there. You don\u2019t always believe you can win that game. As the game went on, I felt that we were in it, and suddenly you start believing more and more that it could go your way.
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Shahar Amir – Photo Credit: Yehuda Halickman<\/p><\/div>
\n\u201cI think I was simply very sharp in those moments, in crunch time against Hapoel Tel Aviv, because I understood what a win over a big team like Hapoel Tel Aviv would mean, what it would do for the people in the Galil, and what it would mean for us in terms of the standings. So that instinctive read of the situation, the steal and the layup, I really attribute that to how sharp I was in that particular situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

The season that changed everything<\/h3>\n

But for all of Amir\u2019s individual success, the defining story of his season was not basketball.<\/p>\n

It was the loss of Raz Adam.<\/p>\n

Adam was killed in a car accident on May 20, leaving Galil Elyon\u2019s players and staff to deal with an unimaginable loss while still trying to finish a professional basketball season.<\/p>\n

Amir admits he is still trying to process what happened, \u201cFirst of all, I don\u2019t know how you can deal with it,\u201d he said. \u201cI think I\u2019m still dealing with it. It\u2019s something you can\u2019t see coming, and you don\u2019t know how to process it. The way it happened, that sudden death, it just catches you completely unprepared. The team evening when we were all together, it was like a movie.\u201d
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Raz Adam and Shahar Amir – Photo Credit: Yehuda Halickman<\/p><\/div>
\nThe team leaned on one another, and in some ways, basketball provided a structure that allowed the players to keep moving forward, \u201cWe dealt with it as a team, which I assume somehow helped us get back into a routine, continue practicing and be together all day. But it\u2019s something that stayed with us until the end of the season and will stay with us for the rest of our lives. We\u2019ll always talk about him and always mention him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI saw in Galil that they put up some kind of picture of him, some kind of sign that will always be there. I think that\u2019s what we have left to do \u2014 to commemorate him and remind everyone what a special person and what a special player Raz was.\u201d<\/p>\n

Playing for Raz<\/h3>\n

Galil Elyon ultimately avoided relegation, and while the team\u2019s season was far from perfect, Amir believes the circumstances surrounding Adam\u2019s death gave the players another source of motivation.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had a bad season as a team, and ultimately we avoided relegation at the end of the season, Amir said. \u201cBut because of what happened with Raz, we felt an even greater drive to make it happen. We were very, very committed throughout the season, but when it happened… in a way we fell apart. We lost all our energy. We were already \u2018fed up,\u2019 and then very quickly, very consciously, that changed into a desire to win and a desire to do it for him. You can\u2019t help but feel that Raz is with us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Amir paused before describing what he believes helped carry the team through those final weeks, \u201cI don\u2019t know, call it mystical, we simply had some other kind of strength when we went into games with him and maybe that was ultimately what kept us in the league.\u201d<\/p>\n

Coming home to Holon<\/h3>\n

Amir\u2019s relationship with Holon goes back several years.
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Shahar Amir – Photo Credit: Yehuda Halickman<\/p><\/div>
\nHe first played for the club in 2022\/23, was named its Most Improved Player the following season and returned toward the end of the 2024\/25 campaign after a difficult period with Galil Elyon.
\nAfter beginning last season in the Galil and producing the best basketball of his career, Amir earned his way back to Holon and for him, the return carries plenty of meaning.<\/p>\n

\u201cHolon is a club that I really, really love. My time here was a period I really enjoyed. Unfortunately, I didn\u2019t get to continue after my second season for various professional reasons. But even when I left, I told them in the conversation when we said goodbye that I would leave, improve and come back.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I\u2019m happy that\u2019s what actually happened. I really, really love the club. I love the team they\u2019ve built here, and I really love the fans. So it\u2019s always great to come back. It really feels like a second home to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Waiting for the national team call<\/h3>\n

Despite his development and strong performances, Amir has yet to make his senior Israel national team debut and that remains one of the next major goals on his list.<\/p>\n

\u201cVery, very much,\u201d Amir said when asked how badly he wants to play for the national team. \u201cI think the Israel national team is a goal that every Israeli player dreams of reaching.
\nUnfortunately, I haven\u2019t had the chance to experience it yet, and I really hope it happens as soon as possible. I\u2019ll do whatever I need to do to show that I deserve a place there and I really hope it happens.\u201d
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Shahar Amir – Photo Credit: Yehuda Halickman<\/p><\/div>
\nAmir has already experienced international success at the youth level. He was part of Israel\u2019s U20 team that won the European Championship on home soil in 2019, sharing the roster with future NBA star Deni Avdija and current Maccabi Tel Aviv guard Yam Madar.<\/p>\n

Avdija\u2019s rise to NBA All-Star status, however, still amazes him, \u201cDeni was always exceptional, but reaching the level of an All-Star… even when I see Deni as an All-Star, it doesn\u2019t register, because it\u2019s beyond anything you could imagine. It\u2019s truly amazing. He\u2019s a player among the top 20, top 30 players in the world. What he\u2019s doing is truly unbelievable, and it\u2019s simply fun to watch him flourish, succeed and improve every season.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for Madar\u2019s decision to return to Israel and join Maccabi Tel Aviv, Amir said he was not surprised, \u201cI wasn\u2019t surprised, to be honest, because Yam is a gamer. Yam is a player who loves the court, he devours the court. That\u2019s what he wants. More than anything, he wants to be on the court and play basketball, and that\u2019s why it made sense to me that this was the decision he would make. He wants to succeed and have the best professional situation, and that\u2019s what Maccabi was able to give him.\u201d<\/p>\n

From Eilat to Holon<\/h3>\n

Away from basketball, Amir revealed that he is an Eilat native something that remains an important part of his identity.
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Shahar Amir – Photo Credit: Yehuda Halickman<\/p><\/div>
\n\u201cI\u2019m from Eilat. I was born in Eilat, and I really, really love the city. I try to get there as much as possible during the year. Over the past two years, it was very difficult to get there from the Galil, but this year we\u2019ll have a visit there in the league, and I also hope I\u2019ll get to go there outside of basketball, visit my family and friends. I really, really love the city.\u201d<\/p>\n

As he begins another season, Amir\u2019s ambitions remain relatively simple: keep improving, keep climbing and enjoy the journey, \u201cMy biggest dream for my career is simply to continue creating the upward trajectory that I\u2019m on. Every season begin, I really want to continue that upward trajectory, improve and fulfill my potential. In life, simply to enjoy the little things and be happy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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