The Hapoel Acre Gazette
Squad12 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Michael Merenstein
59 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Hapoel Acre lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Ashraf Rabbach out for 83 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Hapoel Acre will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Ben Zaid is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Time is catching up with Roei Shukrani
Everybody at Hapoel Acre saw it before anybody said it, which is how this always goes. At 36 the decline is real and measurable — 3 points — and the only question left is how the club handles somebody it owes a great deal to.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Levan Kutalia
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
Ofek Antman faces his old club
Hapoel Haifa next, and one man in the Hapoel Acre dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
In brief
- Looking ahead Hapoel Acre travel to Hapoel Haifa
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Mohammed Khatib