Wilson Harris

Striker - Bnei Yehuda
3 Oct 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Wilson Harris

58 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

6 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Cruel end for Hapoel Kiryat Shmona as Bnei Yehuda pounce

There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Bnei Yehuda scored in the 91th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.

The dugout

Yoav Hofmeister keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Bnei Yehuda may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Ziv Ben-Shimol is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 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.

Boardroom

Window shuts: 17 in, 16 out at Bnei Yehuda

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 17 arrived, 16 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Squad

Wilson Harris has improved at 27, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

Market

Business is business: Maor Kandil goes

Bnei Sakhnin paid $38.0K and Bnei Yehuda took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Squad

Mustapha Gbolahan 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.

The terraces

Bnei Yehuda supporters have found a favourite in Ziv Ben-Shimol

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-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.

Market

Maccabi Petach Tikva join the queue for Joel Abeka

Add another name to the list: Maccabi Petach Tikva have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Joel Abeka. The answer from Bnei Yehuda has not changed — yet.

In brief

Back issues
57 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

30 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Wilson Harris leads the rout of Hapoel Acre

4‑1, and Wilson Harris took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Bnei Yehuda tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

The dugout

Davi Barbosa: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Bnei Yehuda have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Player ratings

Wilson Harris scores twice — 8.55

Two goals and a mark of 8.55 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market

Yoav Hofmeister asks to leave Bnei Yehuda

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Real improvement from Davi Barbosa at Bnei Yehuda

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Davi Barbosa is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Player ratings

Ravve Assayag has a hand in both — 7.97

One scored and one made, which is a different afternoon from scoring twice and an easier one to overlook. Marked 7.97, and involved in 2 of his side's goals.

Squad

Sagi Dror 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 Bnei Yehuda this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Late improvement for Mustapha Gbolahan

At 25 the improving is meant to be over, and it is not: 3 points better than a year ago. It happens to the ones who take the boring parts seriously.

Transfer targets

Maccabi Tel Aviv tell Bnei Yehuda: Sergio Rondon is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

In brief

56 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Elad Shahaf 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.

Market

Hapoel Kiryat Shmona come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Bnei Yehuda did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

The dugout

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Squad

The step up is real for Joel Abeka

At 23 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.

Squad

A late step up for Itamar Noy

At 26 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.

Boardroom

Bnei Yehuda beat the market to Victor Ntokon from Hapoel Kfar Saba

Hapoel Kfar Saba will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Victor Ntokon has pre-agreed a move to Bnei Yehuda, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.

Squad

A row about effort at Bnei Yehuda

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

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Bnei Yehuda

9 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

The dugout

No hiding place for Joel Abeka

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Joel Abeka, and the manager let it.

In brief

52 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

26 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout

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The dugout

Joel Abeka: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Bnei Yehuda have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Bnei Yehuda sign Abed Yassin for $450.0K

The paperwork is done: Abed Yassin joins from Bnei Sakhnin in a deal worth $450.0K. Now comes the harder part.

Squad

A row about effort at Bnei Yehuda

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

Transfer targets

Bnei Yehuda rebuffed over Amit Lemkin

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Hapoel Tel Aviv have kept their man, and Bnei Yehuda go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

Arad Bar 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 Bnei Yehuda this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Niv Antman signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Niv Antman commits to Bnei Yehuda for another 1 years.

The dugout

Eliel Peretz knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Bnei Yehuda, and both men came out saying it was fine.

The dugout

Or Yitzhak 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.

In brief

48 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

28 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Ilay Trost asks to leave Bnei Yehuda

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Davi Barbosa is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 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.

The dugout

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The dugout

Chibuike Emmanuel says Bnei Yehuda went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Market

Business is business: Michael Pistiner goes

Hapoel Kfar Saba paid $730.0K and Bnei Yehuda took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Squad

Mustapha Gbolahan 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 Bnei Yehuda this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Late improvement for Itamar Noy

At 26 the improving is meant to be over, and it is not: 3 points better than a year ago. It happens to the ones who take the boring parts seriously.

Squad

Words at Bnei Yehuda training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yoav Hofmeister is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

The dugout

No hiding place for Elad Shahaf

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Elad Shahaf, and the manager let it.

In brief

45 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

7 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Maor Kandil agrees terms with Hapoel Acre

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Bnei Yehuda people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Market

Bnei Yehuda say no — this time

The offer from Beitar Jerusalem for Wilson Harris was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Market

Arad Bar 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.

Market

Maccabi Haifa watching Stav Nachmani

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Bnei Yehuda have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad

A falling-out at Bnei Yehuda

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

Squad

Words at Bnei Yehuda training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Raz Nahmias is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Transfer targets

Bnei Yehuda rebuffed over Liran Shpigel

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Maccabi Tel Aviv have kept their man, and Bnei Yehuda go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

Matan Levi stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Matan Levi and Bnei Yehuda agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout

Eliel Peretz knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Eliel Peretz trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

42 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

17 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Words exchanged at Bnei Yehuda

Eliel Peretz and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

A row about effort at Bnei Yehuda

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

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Yoav Hofmeister

“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 knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Sagi Dror trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market

Chibuike Emmanuel told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Chibuike Emmanuel has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Bnei Yehuda.

Market

The Wilson Harris story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Wilson Harris signs something — a contract at Bnei Yehuda or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

In brief

38 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

19 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Stav Israeli

14 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Bnei Yehuda lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

The dugout

Eliel Peretz: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Bnei Yehuda have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Shalev Gindi puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Bnei Yehuda, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

A row about effort at Bnei Yehuda

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

Squad

A falling-out at Bnei Yehuda

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

The dugout

No hiding place for Elad Shahaf

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Elad Shahaf, and the manager let it.

Market

No place for Jonathan Agyapong in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Jonathan Agyapong has his answer from Bnei Yehuda; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

The dugout

Ben Adadi 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.

Market

Wilson Harris linked with a move away

The name of Wilson Harris keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Bnei Yehuda say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

34 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

22 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Stav Israeli damages knee ligaments — 43 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 43 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market

Shalev Gindi 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.

Squad

Words at Bnei Yehuda training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mustapha Gbolahan is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad

Elad Shahaf 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 Bnei Yehuda this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Ohad Levita

“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.

Market

Wilson Harris linked with a move away

The name of Wilson Harris keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Bnei Yehuda say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

32 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

8 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout

Avichay Wodaje says Bnei Yehuda went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

Wilson Harris signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Wilson Harris commits to Bnei Yehuda for another 4 years.

Squad

Words at Bnei Yehuda training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mustapha Gbolahan is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad

Tempers go at Bnei Yehuda

Stav Nachmani was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Davi Barbosa named in the team of the month

A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Davi Barbosa is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.

The dugout

Elad Shahaf 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.

In brief

26 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Bnei Yehuda taken apart

0‑4 to Maccabi Haifa, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Squad

7 saves: Tomer Litvinov was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Market

Shalev Gindi puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Bnei Yehuda, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match

4 matches without a win for Bnei Yehuda

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Bnei Yehuda are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Words at Bnei Yehuda training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mustapha Gbolahan is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Camilo Salamanca

Bnei Yehuda asked and Progreso said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Player ratings

Both jobs done by Wilson Harris — 6.83

A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 12 actions, 6.83, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Raz Nahmias

“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.

Boardroom

Inquest at Bnei Yehuda

The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.

In brief

24 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

Fee done, terms next for Eliel Peretz

Bnei Yehuda and Hapoel Beer Sheva have settled on $7.6M. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.

Squad

A falling-out at Bnei Yehuda

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

Transfer targets

Bnei Yehuda rebuffed over Yonatan Levy

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Maccabi Petach Tikva have kept their man, and Bnei Yehuda go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

Words at Bnei Yehuda training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Raz Nahmias is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Player ratings

Mor Buskila runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Bnei Yehuda promote Nir Benayoun from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Nir Benayoun 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Yoav Hofmeister

“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.

Player ratings

Nobody on the pitch touched Wilson Harris

7.91, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Bnei Yehuda had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Elad Madmon is in the works

Bnei Yehuda have made the call to Maccabi Tel Aviv. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

In brief

23 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Nowhere to hide for Bnei Yehuda

1‑6 against Maccabi Tel Aviv, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Tomer Litvinov

There were 8 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

The dugout

Matan Cohen: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Bnei Yehuda have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Stav Israeli puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Bnei Yehuda, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match

Nobody could stop scoring

7 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Bnei Yehuda and Maccabi Tel Aviv in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

Market

Bnei Sakhnin watching Ilay Trost

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Bnei Yehuda have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad

Mustapha Gbolahan 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

Stav Nachmani 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 Bnei Yehuda this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Itamar Noy

“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.

In brief

22 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Shalev Gindi puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Bnei Yehuda, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Words exchanged at Bnei Yehuda

Sagi Dror and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Match

Bnei Yehuda find a way past Hapoel Kfar Saba

Hapoel Kfar Saba made Bnei Yehuda work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

Yoav Hofmeister 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.

Player ratings

Mustapha Gbolahan was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 17. 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.

Player ratings

Nobody on the pitch touched Ravve Assayag

7.86, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Bnei Yehuda had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Tomer Cohen kept it short after the 1‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.

Looking ahead

A test against the best for Bnei Yehuda

The team at the top of the table next, and the honest measure of where this side actually is. Anybody can beat the club below them; the question is what happens against Maccabi Tel Aviv.

Squad

Wilson Harris named player of the week

One weekend, judged against everybody else's. Wilson Harris has come out on top of it, and for most footballers a weekly award is the only silverware a career ever produces.

In brief

21 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Wilson Harris scores twice — 8.93

Two goals and a mark of 8.93 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

The dugout

Or Yitzhak: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Bnei Yehuda have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Mustapha Gbolahan 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 Bnei Yehuda this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Bnei Yehuda see off Bnei Sakhnin

Three points for Bnei Yehuda, 2‑1 the final word against Bnei Sakhnin in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad

Words at Bnei Yehuda training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ilay Trost is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Tomer Cohen, on a 2‑1 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.

The dugout

No hiding place for Elad Shahaf

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Elad Shahaf, and the manager let it.

Squad

The division's best last weekend was a Bnei Yehuda man

It is a small honour and it is not nothing: somebody watched every match in the division and decided that Wilson Harris was the best thing in any of them.

The dugout

The form table has caught Maor Kandil

Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.

In brief

18 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Wilson Harris settles it late for Bnei Yehuda

The 89th minute, half the ground already edging towards the exits, and Wilson Harris decided nobody was going anywhere. Hapoel Acre had no time left to answer.

Match

Bnei Yehuda end the wait against Hapoel Acre

It had gone 8 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.

Squad

A falling-out at Bnei Yehuda

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

Player ratings

Golan Beni shuts the door

Defensive actions: 21, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Match

Bnei Yehuda see off Hapoel Acre

Three points for Bnei Yehuda, 1‑0 the final word against Hapoel Acre in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad

Arad Bar 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.

Player ratings

Nobody on the pitch touched Wilson Harris

7.76, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Bnei Yehuda had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Tomer Cohen, on a 1‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.

The dugout

A promise honoured for Ben Adadi

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Bnei Yehuda told Ben Adadi something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

In brief

15 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Kauan keeps Bnei Yehuda in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 11 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Match

6 matches without a win for Bnei Yehuda

The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Bnei Yehuda are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Stav Nachmani 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 Bnei Yehuda this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The terraces

One of their own: Kauan

He is 23 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

Bnei Yehuda rescue it on 95 minutes

Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 95. Hapoel Haifa had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.

The dugout

Bnei Yehuda keep their word to Ziv Ben-Shimol

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

Squad

A row about effort at Bnei Yehuda

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

Market

No place for Ilay Trost in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Ilay Trost has his answer from Bnei Yehuda; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

Match

Bnei Yehuda and Hapoel Haifa take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

In brief

14 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Kauan keeps Bnei Yehuda in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 11 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Match

Nowhere to hide for Bnei Yehuda

1‑6 against Hapoel Tel Aviv, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

Match

No end in sight to Bnei Yehuda's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Bnei Yehuda has to find a result from somewhere.

Match

Nobody could stop scoring

7 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Bnei Yehuda and Hapoel Tel Aviv in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

The dugout

Stav Nachmani 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

Words at Bnei Yehuda training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yoav Hofmeister is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Boardroom

Nobody left the Bnei Yehuda dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

Squad

Words exchanged at Bnei Yehuda

El Yam Kancepolsky and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Loan watch

Sahar Hershkovich wants to come home

“I did not go to Hapoel Kfar Saba to sit and watch. I want to come back to Bnei Yehuda and fight for my place.” 8 appearances in 11 matches say the rest.

In brief

13 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Nowhere to hide for Bnei Yehuda

1‑4 against Maccabi Haifa, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

Market

Shalev Gindi puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Bnei Yehuda, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match

The wait goes on for Bnei Yehuda

4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

Ravve Assayag stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Ravve Assayag and Bnei Yehuda agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Mustapha Gbolahan 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 Bnei Yehuda this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Bnei Yehuda training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yoav Hofmeister is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Boardroom

Doors closed at Bnei Yehuda

The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.

The dugout

Bnei Yehuda keep their word to Itamar Noy

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

Squad

12 new faces, and Bnei Yehuda are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

In brief

  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • The dugout The manager makes an example of Jonathan Agyapong
  • The dugout The form table has caught Maor Kandil
12 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Kauan stands alone

6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

The dugout

El Yam Kancepolsky says Bnei Yehuda went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Player ratings

Sagi Dror has a hand in both — 7.83

One scored and one made, which is a different afternoon from scoring twice and an easier one to overlook. Marked 7.83, and involved in 2 of his side's goals.

Squad

The step up is real for El Yam Kancepolsky

At 22 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.

Match

Bnei Yehuda come up short against Maccabi Netanya

Maccabi Netanya left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

A falling-out at Bnei Yehuda

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

Squad

A late step up for Tomer Litvinov

At 28 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Wilson Harris

Marked 8.17 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Arad Bar

“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.

In brief

10 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Kauan

There were 13 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Match

Nowhere to hide for Bnei Yehuda

1‑5 against Maccabi Tel Aviv, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

Match

Wilson Harris among the goals in a wild afternoon

6 goals in one match, Wilson Harris on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Bnei Yehuda and Maccabi Tel Aviv.

Squad

Kauan 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

A falling-out at Bnei Yehuda

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

Boardroom

Nobody left the Bnei Yehuda dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

The dugout

Tomer Cohen answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑5, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

Squad

A place in the month's best eleven for Stav Nachmani

Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Stav Nachmani has come out of that comparison in the side, and Bnei Yehuda have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.

The dugout

Ilay Trost 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.

In brief

9 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Ravve Assayag runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 42. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

9 saves: Or Yitzhak was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 9 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Match

Bnei Yehuda bow out of the cup

Maccabi Netanya go through and Bnei Yehuda go home, 0‑3 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

The terraces

A cup embarrassment at Maccabi Netanya follows Bnei Yehuda home

0-3. Going out of a cup is one afternoon; going out like that is a week of phone-ins, and the manager will hear every one of them.

Squad

A row about effort at Bnei Yehuda

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

Squad

Words exchanged at Bnei Yehuda

Stav Nachmani and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Match

Bnei Yehuda get the job done against Hapoel Kfar Saba

A 2‑1 win over Hapoel Kfar Saba, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Wilson Harris

Marked 8.07 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

The dugout

Yoav Hofmeister 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.

In brief

7 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

A brace, and Stav Nachmani takes the afternoon — 8.74

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Stav Nachmani provided it, and the 8.74 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Market

Ori Hassan puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Bnei Yehuda, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings

Ravve Assayag was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 22. 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.

Match

Stav Nachmani sends Bnei Yehuda past Hapoel Raanana

It finished 3‑2, and it was Stav Nachmani’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Bnei Yehuda.

Squad

Words exchanged at Bnei Yehuda

Mustapha Gbolahan and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

The dugout

Kauan 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.

Player ratings

One of those days for Wilson Harris

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.64, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad

Yoav Hofmeister 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

Itamar Noy: “I am not a substitute”

“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Bnei Yehuda will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.

In brief

  • The dugout The view from the dugout
  • The dugout Ziv Ben-Shimol knocks on the manager’s door
  • The dugout Maor Kandil dropped after a run of poor form
6 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Ilay Trost asks to leave Bnei Yehuda

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Boardroom

Window shuts: 19 in, 1 out at Bnei Yehuda

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 19 arrived, 1 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Mustapha Gbolahan

Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Transfer targets

Independiente tell Bnei Yehuda: Mateo Morro is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Match

Hapoel Kiryat Shmona take the points off Bnei Yehuda

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

Tempers go at Bnei Yehuda

Mustapha Gbolahan was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

No place for Ziv Ben-Shimol in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Bnei Yehuda are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

Squad

Stav Nachmani is no longer first choice

The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Stav Nachmani has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.

Squad

Ilay Trost 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.

In brief

2 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Maccabi Netanya come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Bnei Yehuda did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Shalev Gindi puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Bnei Yehuda, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets

JP Murilo will not be coming to Bnei Yehuda

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Vasco da Gama is saying, and nobody at Bnei Yehuda is enjoying the guessing.

Squad

Tamir Berman signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Tamir Berman commits to Bnei Yehuda for another 3 years.

Squad

Words exchanged at Bnei Yehuda

Stav Nachmani and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Transfer targets

Bnei Yehuda rebuffed over Alexis Martínez

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Almirante Brown have kept their man, and Bnei Yehuda go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market

Bnei Yehuda promote Guy Levy from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Guy 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: Adi Levy joins the Bnei Yehuda first team

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

Squad

Yoav Hofmeister 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.

In brief

1 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Raz Nahmias signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Raz Nahmias and Bnei Yehuda agree another 2 years.

Squad

A falling-out at Bnei Yehuda

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

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.

Market

Eyes on Sahar Hershkovich again

The phone has started ringing about Sahar Hershkovich again, and this time the name on the line is Hapoel Kfar Saba. Bnei Yehuda are listening politely and promising nothing.

Market

49 months and counting on Stav Nachmani

Still no offer on the table, and Stav Nachmani’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.

Squad

7 new faces, and Bnei Yehuda are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Alexis Martínez is in the works

Bnei Yehuda have made the call to Almirante Brown. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Transfer targets

Bnei Yehuda try to borrow JP Murilo

Vasco da Gama have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Market

Bnei Yehuda and Wilson Harris are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

In brief

1 Edition

The Maccabi Petach Tikva Chronicle

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Nowaf Bazia signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Nowaf Bazia commits to Maccabi Petach Tikva for another 4 years.

Squad

A row about effort at Maccabi Petach Tikva

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

Squad

Eitan Tibi 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 Maccabi Petach Tikva this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

Maccabi Petach Tikva try to borrow Ben Lederman

Maccabi Tel Aviv have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Transfer targets

Maccabi Petach Tikva ask about Roee Fucs

A loan enquiry to Maccabi Haifa: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Market

The clock runs on Nowaf Bazia's contract

49 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.

The dugout

Adar Ratner knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Adar Ratner trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market

Still no ink between Maccabi Petach Tikva and Omer Shirazi

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Maccabi Petach Tikva, another week without a signature from Omer Shirazi.

Squad

Samuel Owusu handed the armband

The captaincy goes to Samuel Owusu. It is not a job that wins matches, but a dressing room always notices who is given it.

In brief