Roster: Roe Avneri F-C, Ofri Naveh G, Roi Behar G, Omer Mayer G, Shachar Doron G, Idan Zilbershlag C, Alon Michaeli C, Yonatan Abouloff F, Or Hen G, Or Cohen F, Ilay Dolinski F, Ben Saraf G.
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Israel U16 – Photo Credit: IBBA<\/p><\/div>
\nSchedule:<\/strong>
\nMonday August 16 15:30 – Slovenia
\nTuesday August 17 21:30 – Serbia
\nWednesday August 18 18:30 – Czech Republic
\nFriday August 20 18:30 – Turkey
\nSaturday August 21 15:30 – Belgium<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Israel Under-16 National Basketball team will be taking part in a FIBA Challenger Tournament taking place in Novi Sad, Serbia. While this competition will be similar to the other Challenger tourneys that the Israel U20 and U18 teams took part in, this one will see the top two teams in the group advance to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":39986,"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":[989,29],"class_list":["post-39985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-holy-land-hoops","tag-fiba","tag-israel","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\n
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