The Hapoel Tel Aviv Sentinel
Match23 Sep 2026
Hapoel Tel Aviv march on in the cup
Hapoel Kfar Saba are out and Hapoel Tel Aviv go through, 2‑1 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Omri Altman was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 27. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Match26 Sep 2026
Hapoel Tel Aviv make it 3 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Hapoel Tel Aviv have 3 straight wins of it.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Andrian Kraev in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Hapoel Tel Aviv this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
A goal and an assist for Ziv Ben-Shimol — 7.91
Involvement in 2 goals, from a player who spent the ninety minutes doing the thing a manager actually wants: being where the ball was going to end up. 7.91 beside his name.
Squad28 Sep 2026
The step up is real for Ynal Bazdog
At 17 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Hapoel Tel Aviv
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Doron Leidner was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The terraces28 Sep 2026
Hapoel Tel Aviv supporters have found a favourite in Ziv Ben-Shimol
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Ziv Ben-Shimol has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match26 Sep 2026
Hapoel Tel Aviv get the job done against Beitar Jerusalem
A 1‑0 win over Beitar Jerusalem, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
In brief
- Player ratings One of those days for Andrian Kraev
- Player ratings Mor Buskila was on a different afternoon to everybody else
- The dugout Matan Glazer: “That is the standard”