The Hapoel Tel Aviv Sentinel
Match17 Oct 2026
Hapoel Tel Aviv make it 7 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Hapoel Tel Aviv have 7 straight wins of it.
Squad19 Oct 2026
The step up is real for Daniel Dappa
At 19 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
Stav Toriel the difference as Hapoel Tel Aviv beat Hapoel Kiryat Shmona
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Stav Toriel. 1‑0 against Hapoel Kiryat Shmona, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Mor Buskila signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mor Buskila commits to Hapoel Tel Aviv for another 4 years.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Stav Toriel in the eights
A performance of 8.08 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
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.” Itay Refaelov kept it short after the 1‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
Market19 Oct 2026
Stav Toriel linked with a move away
The name of Stav Toriel keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Hapoel Tel Aviv say nothing, which says plenty.
Looking ahead19 Oct 2026
Gad Amos faces his old club
Bnei Sakhnin next, and one man in the Hapoel Tel Aviv dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Emmanuel Boateng could have had three
8 attempts, none of them in. He got into the right places all afternoon, which is the hard part, and did the easy part badly — and that is the version of a bad day a manager can live with.
In brief
- The dugout The plan did not have a place for Douglas Owusu
- Player ratings Nothing got past Chico
- Player ratings Marcus Coco ran the game