Eitan David

Defensive Midfielder - Bnei Yehuda U18
24 Jan 2028
Monday
Process

Marked for Eitan David

62 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

4 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Golan Beni pops up at the right end — 7.95

7.95, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.

Match

6 unbeaten for Bnei Yehuda

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Bnei Yehuda did not have in the autumn.

Squad

A row about effort at Bnei Yehuda

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Tamir Berman was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The terraces

One of their own: Ilay Ben-Simon

He is 18 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Match

Golan Beni the difference as Bnei Yehuda beat Hapoel Kfar Saba

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Golan Beni. 1‑0 against Hapoel Kfar Saba, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

The dugout

Idan Trau gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad

Bnei Yehuda count the cost of losing Eitan David

15 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Squad

Douglas Owusu is the month’s best young player

At 21 he was better than everybody his age in the division for four weeks running, which is harder than one good afternoon. Bnei Yehuda will try not to make too much of it.

Boardroom

Wages eat 89% of everything Bnei Yehuda earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

In brief

  • Squad Ben Sørensen named in the team of the month
  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • The dugout Ben Sørensen asks for a word with the manager
Back issues
58 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

6 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Stav Nachmani breaks a bone — 16 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 16 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Ravve Assayag hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Bnei Yehuda can pretend not to have heard.

Boardroom

Deadline passes with 24 signed and 20 gone

That is the business done at Bnei Yehuda until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

Squad

Sagi Dror falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad

Eitan David out for 45 days

The medical room confirms 45 days on the sidelines for Eitan David, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad

A falling-out at Bnei Yehuda

Sahar Hershkovich and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Ilay Trost

“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.

The dugout

Sagi Dror asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Looking ahead

Guy Mizrahi faces his old club

Hapoel Kiryat Shmona next, and one man in the Bnei Yehuda dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

In brief