Bnei Yehuda U20

29 Jun 2027
Tuesday
Process
48 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

28 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Every point is an argument now for Bnei Yehuda

Position 12 and 12 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

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.

The terraces

Supporters turn on the $400.0K sale of Elad Shahaf

He is going to Hapoel Kfar Saba, the club has $400.0K it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.

Market

Bnei Yehuda sign Javon East for $900.0K

The paperwork is done: Javon East joins from Hapoel Beer Sheva in a deal worth $900.0K. Now comes the harder part.

Market

Bnei Yehuda sign Omer Abuhav for $580.0K

The paperwork is done: Omer Abuhav joins from Beitar Jerusalem in a deal worth $580.0K. Now comes the harder part.

Squad

The step up is real for Chibuike Emmanuel

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

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

Too dear: Bnei Yehuda walk away from Sayed Abu Farchi

$200.0K was the most the club would pay and Maccabi Tel Aviv were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

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.

In brief

Back issues
47 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

21 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

The mood at Bnei Yehuda has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Transfer targets

Javon East due for a Bnei Yehuda medical

Everything agreed with Hapoel Beer Sheva, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Transfer targets

Maccabi Netanya tell Bnei Yehuda: Aziz Ouattara 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.

Market

Hapoel Haifa 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.

Transfer targets

An offer of $250.0K for Ziv Morgan

Bnei Yehuda have gone to Hapoel 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.

Squad

Real improvement from Michael Pistiner at Bnei Yehuda

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Michael Pistiner is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

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.

Transfer targets

Bnei Yehuda baulk at the price for Sarel Cohen

Maccabi Haifa wanted more than $290.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Squad

A late step up for Arad Bar

At 27 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.

In brief

46 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

14 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

The unthinkable, invoiced: Matan Levi sold

Beitar Jerusalem arrived with $1.2M and left with the best player in the building. The board will call it business; the queue at the ticket office will use other words.

The terraces

A $1.2M sale, and a town that did not want it

Matan Levi has gone, the accounts have $1.2M in them, and the supporters have the feeling of having been sold something themselves. Good business and a good decision are not always the same thing.

Market

Bnei Yehuda turn down Hapoel Kfar Saba for Ori Hassan

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market

Shachar Rosen comes home

The shirt still fits. Shachar Rosen is back at Bnei Yehuda, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.

Squad

Real improvement from Roey Magor at Bnei Yehuda

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Roey Magor is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

Golan Beni stays put

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

Transfer targets

An offer of $270.0K for Sarel Cohen

Bnei Yehuda have gone to Maccabi Haifa 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

Bnei Yehuda bid $140.0K for Yuval Kretzo

The offer went to Maccabi Petach Tikva 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.

Market

Bnei Yehuda get their man

The chase for Itay Hemi ended with $100.0K changing hands and Hapoel Beer Sheva out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.

In brief

45 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

7 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Bnei Yehuda

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Transfer targets

$250.0K settles it between the clubs for Roey Magor

Maccabi Tel Aviv have accepted the money. What Bnei Yehuda do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.

Transfer targets

Shachar Rosen is a medical away from Bnei Yehuda

The deal with Maccabi Tel Aviv is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

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.

Transfer targets

Bnei Yehuda rebuffed over Shachar Rosen

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.

Market

Beitar Jerusalem join the queue for Matan Levi

Add another name to the list: Beitar Jerusalem have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Matan Levi. The answer from Bnei Yehuda has not changed — yet.

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.

Squad

Jonathan Agyapong signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Jonathan Agyapong and Bnei Yehuda agree another 3 years.

The dugout

No hiding place for Rafael Assis

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

In brief

44 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

31 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Every point is an argument now for Bnei Yehuda

Position 12 and 12 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Market

Ilay Trost 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

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.

Squad

A row about effort at Bnei Yehuda

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

The dugout

Avichay Wodaje 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.

Market

The Stav Nachmani question follows Bnei Yehuda around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Stav Nachmani’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief

43 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

24 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

The mood at Bnei Yehuda has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

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

Ben Adadi 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 dugout

Bohdan Budko 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 Bohdan Budko trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The dugout

A door opens for Avichay Wodaje

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

Market

Michael Pistiner linked with a move away

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

In brief

42 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

17 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

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.

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.

Loan watch

Jonathan Agyapong counts the days

“I watch every Bnei Yehuda game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Maccabi Netanya runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

In brief

41 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

10 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

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

Pedrinho 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.

Market

Bnei Yehuda promote Dan Dabbur from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Dan Dabbur 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

Bnei Yehuda promote Ofir Levy from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ofir 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

Bnei Yehuda promote Itay Abada from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Itay Abada 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.

Loan watch

Ori Hassan has seen enough of Hapoel Kfar Saba

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Bnei Yehuda, and 5 appearances in 15 say he has earned the hearing.

In brief

40 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

3 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Bnei Yehuda sink to position 12

12 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

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

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

A row about effort at Bnei Yehuda

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

Market

The Stav Nachmani question follows Bnei Yehuda around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Stav Nachmani’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

Squad

Pedrinho can feel the drop

The table is being checked before the results are in, which is always the tell. Nobody at Bnei Yehuda says the word and every senior player in the building is thinking it.

In brief

39 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

26 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

The mood at Bnei Yehuda has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

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

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.

In brief

38 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

19 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

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 Pedrinho was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

Arad Bar has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Arad Bar has written the date down.

In brief

37 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

12 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

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 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.

Squad

Ben Adadi 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 dugout

Alexis Martínez gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Alexis Martínez is on it.

The dugout

Bohdan Budko 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.

Squad

Raz Nahmias is doing the arithmetic

The table has started to be checked before the results are in, and that is always the tell. Nobody at Bnei Yehuda says the word out loud, and everybody in the building is thinking it.

In brief

36 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

5 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Every point is an argument now for Bnei Yehuda

Position 12 and 12 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

The dugout

Bohdan Budko 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

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

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.

Market

Shon Natcho steps up from the Bnei Yehuda academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Shon Natcho has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

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.

Loan watch

Jonathan Agyapong has seen enough of Maccabi Netanya

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Bnei Yehuda, and 6 appearances in 12 say he has earned the hearing.

Squad

Bnei Yehuda take the armband off Liran Sardal

It will be explained as a change for the team and it may even be one. Nobody who has worn one believes that, and neither does the man who has just had it taken away.

The dugout

Liran Sardal 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 Liran Sardal trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

35 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

29 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

The mood at Bnei Yehuda has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

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.

Squad

Pedrinho 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 dugout

The manager makes Arad Bar a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Bnei Yehuda. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

The dugout

Elad Shahaf 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.

Market

The Michael Pistiner story refuses to die

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

In brief

34 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

22 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

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

Words at Bnei Yehuda training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pedrinho 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

Rafael Assis 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.

The dugout

Stav Israeli 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.

The dugout

The manager makes Tomer Litvinov a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Bnei Yehuda. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

Squad

Questions about Or Yitzhak on the training pitch

The standards have slipped, and in a building where everybody watches everybody it has not gone unremarked. This is how a player loses a place before he loses one.

In brief

33 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

15 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

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

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

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.

The dugout

When it matters, Alexis Martínez plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Squad

Nerves in the Bnei Yehuda squad

Pedrinho has been around long enough to know what the spring feels like when it goes wrong, and he can feel it. A dressing room that is frightened plays like one.

The dugout

Stav Israeli 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 Stav Israeli trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

32 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

8 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Bnei Yehuda are in real trouble now

Position 12, 12 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Market

Ilay Trost 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

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 3 years.

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

Pedrinho 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

Bohdan Budko named in the team of the month

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

In brief

31 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

1 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

Supporters organise against the Bnei Yehuda board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Squad

Alexis Martínez wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Bnei Yehuda know it.

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.

Squad

Ben Adadi 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

Pedrinho moves up the pecking order

Nothing is announced when this happens and everybody knows. He is a bigger part of the plan at Bnei Yehuda than he was a month ago, and the training ground worked that out before the team sheet said so.

The dugout

Ilay Trost 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.

In brief

30 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

22 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Bnei Yehuda finish in position 12

12 points, and the season has a number on it. Whatever it felt like from the inside, this is what it will look like in a book.

Squad

7 saves: Alexis Martínez 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.

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

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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Bnei Yehuda against Beitar Jerusalem

1‑2 to Beitar Jerusalem, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

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 will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑2 defeat, delivered by Almog Cohen to a room that had heard them before.

The dugout

No hiding place for Rafael Assis

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

The dugout

Golan Beni does not fit this one

Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.

In brief

29 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Alexis Martínez stands alone

10 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.

Match

Nowhere to hide for Bnei Yehuda

0‑3 against Hapoel Beer Sheva, 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.

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.

Squad

Ben Adadi 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 dugout

No hiding place for Ravve Assayag

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

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.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑3 Almog Cohen left the room before anybody could ask which.

The dugout

Alexis Martínez has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Bnei Yehuda will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief

28 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Bnei Yehuda are in real trouble now

Position 12, 12 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Market

Elad Shahaf 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

Mustapha Gbolahan signs a new deal

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

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

Deadline beats Bnei Yehuda to Yadin Lugasi

The clock did what Hapoel Acre would not, and ended it. Supporters who watched the countdown will spend the next window doing it again.

Squad

Words at Bnei Yehuda training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Golan Beni 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.

Match

Stav Nachmani’s goal not enough for Bnei Yehuda

Stav Nachmani scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Hapoel Haifa, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Market

Nir Melikson steps up from the Bnei Yehuda academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Nir Melikson has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Match

No time for Hapoel Haifa to settle

The goal that put Hapoel Haifa ahead was still being replayed on the concourse when Bnei Yehuda equalised, 4 minutes later. Leads are only worth what you do with them.

In brief

27 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Ilay Trost 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.

Boardroom

Window shuts: 4 in, 2 out at Bnei Yehuda

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 4 arrived, 2 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Transfer targets

Bnei Yehuda make their move for Yadin Lugasi

$1.3M on the table at Hapoel Acre. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

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.

Squad

Golan Beni 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.

Transfer targets

Bnei Yehuda rebuffed over Daniel Banjaqui

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

Transfer targets

Bnei Yehuda try to borrow Pedrinho

Maccabi Netanya 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 buy the years ahead of Rhuan Pedro

He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

Squad

A step back for Michael Merenstein at Bnei Yehuda

Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.

In brief

26 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Alexis Martínez stands alone

8 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.

Market

Maor Kandil 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.

Transfer targets

Giuliano Gurrieri turns down Bnei Yehuda

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Maccabi Petach Tikva keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Transfer targets

Bnei Yehuda rebuffed over Osama Khalaila

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

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.

Match

Bnei Yehuda find a way past Maccabi Haifa

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

Squad

Ronen Gradashov signs a new deal

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

Transfer targets

A loan move for Bohdan Budko is in the works

Bnei Yehuda have made the call to Feyenoord. 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 ask about Michael Merenstein

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

In brief

  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • The dugout Ohad Levita gets it from the manager
  • Squad A row about effort at Bnei Yehuda
25 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Transfer targets

Giuliano Gurrieri is a medical away from Bnei Yehuda

The deal with Maccabi Petach Tikva is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Match

3 matches without a goal for Bnei Yehuda

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Transfer targets

Bnei Yehuda rebuffed over Roei Alkukin

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

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. 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.

Player ratings

Both jobs done by Stav Nachmani — 6.87

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. 10 actions, 6.87, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.

Squad

Ronen Gradashov signs a new deal

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

The dugout

A promise honoured at Bnei Yehuda

Something was said to Sagi Dror and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.

Player ratings

Nothing got past Tamir Berman

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 16 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

In brief

24 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Bnei Yehuda are in real trouble now

Position 14, 7 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

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

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.

Transfer targets

Bnei Yehuda rebuffed over Slobodan Tedić

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

The terraces

One of their own: Alexis Martínez

He is 21 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.

Market

Omer Peretz steps up from the Bnei Yehuda academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Omer Peretz has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

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.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Daniel Banjaqui is in the works

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

Transfer targets

A loan move for Hyllarion Goore is in the works

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

In brief

  • The dugout A promise honoured for Arad Bar
  • The dugout The manager makes an example of Rafael Assis
  • Player ratings Sagi Dror beats them one at a time
23 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

A hiding for Bnei Yehuda

Beaten 0‑4 by Maccabi Tel Aviv, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

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

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.

Market

Eyes on Jonathan Agyapong again

The phone has started ringing about Jonathan Agyapong again, and this time the name on the line is Maccabi Netanya. Bnei Yehuda are listening politely and promising nothing.

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.

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

Almog Cohen: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑4, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Shachar Rosen 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.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Yarin Shyovitz is in the works

Bnei Yehuda have made the call to Hapoel 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

22 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Bnei Yehuda end the wait against Hapoel Kfar Saba

It had gone 18 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.

Player ratings

A brace, and Stav Nachmani takes the afternoon — 8.79

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Stav Nachmani provided it, and the 8.79 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

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 Raz Nahmias was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

Bnei Yehuda see off Hapoel Kfar Saba

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

The dugout

Almog Cohen has his say

“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Almog Cohen on a 2‑1 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.

Looking ahead

Bnei Yehuda take on the side everybody is chasing

Maccabi Tel Aviv arrive as leaders. A side at the top is beaten roughly once a month, and the club that does it gets a week it remembers for a year.

Player ratings

Sagi Dror was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 13. 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.

Looking ahead

Stav Nachmani goes back to face Maccabi Tel Aviv

Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Stav Nachmani’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Bnei Yehuda needing him to play as if none of it matters.

In brief

21 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

18 matches without a win for Bnei Yehuda

The run now stands at 18, and the questions being asked around Bnei Yehuda are no longer polite ones.

Market

Udi Eliyahu 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.

Match

Bnei Yehuda leaking at the back

7 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.

Match

Bnei Yehuda come up short against Bnei Sakhnin

Bnei Sakhnin left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

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.

The dugout

Udi Eliyahu 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. 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.

Looking ahead

Bnei Yehuda face Hapoel Kfar Saba in the game that matters most

Two sides from the bottom of the table, three points, and an afternoon that will be described afterwards as a relegation decider by whoever loses it.

Player ratings

Ilay Trost was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 16. 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.

In brief

20 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The wait goes on for Bnei Yehuda

17 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.

Match

Every point is an argument now for Bnei Yehuda

Position 14 and 3 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Match

Bnei Yehuda are shipping goals every week

Two or more conceded in each of the last 6 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.

Squad

Arad Bar signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Arad Bar and Bnei Yehuda agree another 3 years.

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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Bnei Yehuda against Hapoel Raanana

0‑2 to Hapoel Raanana, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Market

One of our own: Ofir Levy joins the Bnei Yehuda first team

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

Player ratings

Sagi Dror was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 16. 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.

The dugout

Almog Cohen: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

In brief

19 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The wait goes on for Bnei Yehuda

16 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.

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

Alexis Martínez keeps Bnei Yehuda in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Match

Bnei Yehuda are shipping goals every week

Two or more conceded in each of the last 5 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.

Squad

Mustapha Gbolahan stays put

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

Match

Hapoel Kiryat Shmona take the points off Bnei Yehuda

Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

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.

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.

Looking ahead

Bnei Yehuda face Hapoel Raanana in the game that matters most

Two sides from the bottom of the table, three points, and an afternoon that will be described afterwards as a relegation decider by whoever loses it.

In brief

18 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The wait goes on for Bnei Yehuda

15 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.

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.

Player ratings

Mustapha Gbolahan was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 20. 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

No clean sheets in sight for Bnei Yehuda

4 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.

Match

Ravve Assayag’s goal not enough for Bnei Yehuda

Ravve Assayag scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Hapoel Acre, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

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

Ben Adadi reaches 100 appearances

100 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.

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.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑2 defeat, delivered by Almog Cohen to a room that had heard them before.

In brief

17 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

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

14 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.

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

A bad afternoon for Bnei Yehuda against Beitar Jerusalem

1‑3 to Beitar Jerusalem, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Raz Nahmias 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 dugout

Alexis Martínez 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

Stav Israeli signs a new deal

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

Match

The half-term report on Bnei Yehuda

Position 13, 3 points, and every result so far reduced to one line. The second half of the season starts with the same squad and a different set of expectations.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑3 defeat, delivered by Almog Cohen to a room that had heard them before.

The dugout

Alexis Martínez has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Bnei Yehuda will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief

16 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The wait goes on for Bnei Yehuda

13 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.

Match

A hiding for Bnei Yehuda

Beaten 1‑5 by Hapoel Beer Sheva, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Match

Every point is an argument now for Bnei Yehuda

Position 13 and 3 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Market

Udi Eliyahu 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 one-man rearguard from Alexis Martínez

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.

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.

Match

Stav Nachmani among the goals in a wild afternoon

6 goals in one match, Stav Nachmani on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Bnei Yehuda and Hapoel Beer Sheva.

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.

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

15 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

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

12 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.

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.

Match

Hapoel Haifa take the points off Bnei Yehuda

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Market

Bnei Yehuda promote Ofir Solomon from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ofir Solomon 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.

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.

The dugout

Almog Cohen: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

The dugout

No hiding place for Rafael Assis

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

Looking ahead

Ilay Trost faces his old club

Hapoel Beer Sheva 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.

The dugout

Mustapha Gbolahan 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.

In brief

14 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

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

11 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.

Squad

Alexis Martínez 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.

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

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.

The terraces

Bnei Yehuda supporters have found a favourite in Alexis Martínez

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Alexis Martínez 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.

Match

Hapoel Tel Aviv take the points off Bnei Yehuda

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout

Almog Cohen answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

Squad

Alexis Martínez named in the team of the month

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

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Matan Levi

“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

13 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

10 matches without a win for Bnei Yehuda

The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around Bnei Yehuda are no longer polite ones.

Player ratings

Stav Nachmani scores twice — 8.78

Two goals and a mark of 8.78 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Alexis Martínez

There were 6 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.

Squad

Bnei Yehuda count the cost of losing Sagi Dror

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

Match

Bnei Yehuda are shipping goals every week

Two or more conceded in each of the last 5 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.

Match

Nobody could stop scoring

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

Match

Stav Nachmani’s goal not enough for Bnei Yehuda

Stav Nachmani scored, and precious little else went right: 2‑4 to Maccabi Haifa, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

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

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

12 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

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

9 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

Bnei Yehuda are in real trouble now

Position 13, 3 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Player ratings

Both of them Stav Nachmani's — 8.79

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.79, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad

Shahar Mizrahi 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Bnei Yehuda against Maccabi Netanya

2‑3 to Maccabi Netanya, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Match

Bnei Yehuda are shipping goals every week

Two or more conceded in each of the last 4 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.

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.

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.

In brief

  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • The dugout Elad Shahaf gets it from the manager
  • Looking ahead The leaders are next for Bnei Yehuda
11 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Bnei Yehuda let it slip despite Ravve Assayag

Ravve Assayag had done his part in building a 2-goal cushion. What happened after that was collective, and Maccabi Petach Tikva were allowed back into a match that had been finished with.

Match

The wait goes on for Bnei Yehuda

8 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.

Player ratings

Ravve Assayag scores twice — 8.61

Two goals and a mark of 8.61 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad

Alexis Martínez wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Bnei Yehuda can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

Squad

Ravve Assayag signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ravve Assayag and Bnei Yehuda agree another 3 years.

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.

Market

Bnei Yehuda promote Yonatan Weissman from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Yonatan Weissman 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

Alexis Martínez 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

Mustapha Gbolahan beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 18. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

In brief

10 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

13 saves: Alexis Martínez was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 13 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Match

Bnei Yehuda taken apart

0‑4 to Maccabi Tel Aviv, 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.

Match

The wait goes on for Bnei Yehuda

7 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.

Market

Shalev Gindi 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

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 late step up for Arad Bar

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.

Squad

Raz Nahmias 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 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.

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.

In brief

9 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Bnei Yehuda out of the cup

Maccabi Netanya ended it 0‑1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Market

Udi Eliyahu 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

3 goals for Stav Nachmani

The match ball belongs to Stav Nachmani, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.

Match

The wait goes on for Bnei Yehuda

6 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

Alexis Martínez 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.

Squad

Bnei Yehuda lose Sagi Dror

50 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

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

6 goals as Bnei Yehuda and Hapoel Kfar Saba go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Bnei Yehuda and Hapoel Kfar Saba, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Stav Nachmani at his very best

Marked 9.50. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Bnei Yehuda.

In brief

8 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Alexis Martínez stands alone

9 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.

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

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.

Match

Bnei Yehuda come up short against Bnei Sakhnin

Bnei Sakhnin left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout

Almog Cohen: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

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.

Squad

The formation has left Rafael Assis behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Bnei Yehuda will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

Squad

Words at Bnei Yehuda training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Shalev Gindi 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.

Market

Bnei Yehuda bring in an old head

Rafael Assis is 33 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.

In brief

7 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Up for the corner, and Raz Nahmias delivers — 7.86

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Raz Nahmias scored, was marked 7.86, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Player ratings

Ravve Assayag runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Ohad Levita’s move to Hapoel Kiryat Shmona falls through

The deal that would have taken Ohad Levita to Hapoel Kiryat Shmona has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Bnei Yehuda with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.

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.

Market

Bnei Yehuda promote Matan Refaelov from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Matan 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.

Match

Hapoel Raanana snatch it back from Bnei Yehuda

A goal on 90 minutes turned three points into one and a good afternoon into an argument about game management that will run until Saturday.

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.

Player ratings

An own goal to forget for Arad Bar

The one goal a footballer does not get to celebrate and does not get to forget either. His name is in the wrong column and nothing about it was meant.

Match

Bnei Yehuda and Hapoel Raanana 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

6 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Nowhere to hide for Bnei Yehuda

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

Squad

Alexis Martínez keeps Bnei Yehuda in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Boardroom

Window shuts: 14 in, 1 out at Bnei Yehuda

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 14 arrived, 1 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

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

Ziv Ben-Shimol will not be coming to Bnei Yehuda

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

Transfer targets

Bnei Yehuda rebuffed over Carlos Cantillo

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

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.

Market

Eyes on Ohad Levita again

The phone has started ringing about Ohad Levita again, and this time the name on the line is Hapoel Kiryat Shmona. Bnei Yehuda are listening politely and promising nothing.

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.

In brief

5 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Ohad Levita 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

Ziv Ben-Shimol due for a Bnei Yehuda medical

Everything agreed with Beitar Jerusalem, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Transfer targets

El Mehdi Maouhoub turns down Bnei Yehuda

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Dinamo Moscow keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Transfer targets

Bnei Yehuda rebuffed over Jose Lemos

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

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

Hapoel Acre take the points off Bnei Yehuda

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Alexis Martínez

“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.

Squad

8 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.

The dugout

Almog Cohen: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

In brief

4 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

The terraces

Supporters turn on the $700.0K sale of Dani Amerr

He is going to Hapoel Kiryat Shmona, the club has $700.0K it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.

Market

Dani Amerr moves on

Hapoel Kiryat Shmona pay $700.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Transfer targets

Too dear: Bnei Yehuda walk away from Giuliano Gurrieri

$250.0K was the most the club would pay and Maccabi Petach Tikva were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Transfer targets

Patronato tell Bnei Yehuda: Bartolomé Velásquez 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.

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

Words exchanged at Bnei Yehuda

Elad Shahaf 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 ask about El Mehdi Maouhoub

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

Transfer targets

A loan move for Jose Lemos is in the works

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

Squad

Uri Levy signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Uri Levy and Bnei Yehuda agree another 3 years.

In brief

3 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

Bnei Yehuda make their move for Giuliano Gurrieri

$250.0K on the table at Maccabi Petach Tikva. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

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.

Transfer targets

Polissia tell Bnei Yehuda: Vladyslav Veleten 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.

Market

Dani Amerr attracts admirers

The name of Dani Amerr has come up in conversations Bnei Yehuda were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

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

Ohad Levita told to find a new club

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

In brief

2 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Beitar Jerusalem 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.

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.

Market

Alexis Martínez arrives at Bnei Yehuda in a $130.0K statement of intent

There comes a point where a club either backs its own ambition or admits it does not have any. Bnei Yehuda have paid $130.0K for Alexis Martínez, which is the loudest way there is of saying which one it chose.

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.

Market

Eli Revivo steps up from the Bnei Yehuda academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Eli Revivo has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

The dugout

Mustapha Gbolahan 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.

Transfer targets

Bnei Yehuda ask about Vladyslav Veleten

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

The dugout

Tamir Berman 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.

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.

Transfer targets

An offer of $130.0K for Alexis Martínez

Bnei Yehuda have gone to Almirante Brown 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.

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

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.

Transfer targets

Bnei Yehuda ask about Facundo Quintana

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

In brief