Ben Levy

Central Defender - Maccabi Petach Tikva U18
7 Sep 2026
Monday
Process

Marked for Ben Levy

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The Maccabi Petach Tikva Chronicle

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

Door shut on Pierre Cornud

Maccabi Petach Tikva asked and Maccabi Haifa said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Boardroom

Maccabi Petach Tikva go back to the board over Liam Hermesh

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $644.0K — a club that wants Liam Hermesh enough to be asked twice.

Transfer targets

Maccabi Petach Tikva baulk at the price for Liam Hermesh

Maccabi Haifa wanted more than $600.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Transfer targets

An offer of $80.0K for Itay Ben-Hemo

Maccabi Petach Tikva have gone to Maccabi Tel Aviv with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Transfer targets

Maccabi Petach Tikva bid $86.0K for Saher Taji

The offer went to Maccabi Netanya this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Boardroom

5 academy graduates step up at Maccabi Petach Tikva

Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.

Market

Maccabi Petach Tikva promote Amit Refaelov from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Amit Refaelov has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

Maccabi Petach Tikva promote Ben Levy from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ben Levy has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

One of our own: Amit Dabbur joins the Maccabi Petach Tikva first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Amit Dabbur is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief