Bnei Yehuda U20

3 Sep 2026
Thursday
Process
5 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

The knee: Ohad Levita out for 60 days

60 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Bnei Yehuda lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Transfer targets

Maccabi Tel Aviv tell Bnei Yehuda: Sayed Abu Farchi 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 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: Stav Nachmani

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 get the job done against Hapoel Acre

A 1‑0 win over Hapoel Acre, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Player ratings

Amir Ben-Shimon beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 17. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Player ratings

Stav Nachmani takes the honours

Marked 7.75 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Bnei Yehuda had the best player on the pitch.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Bnei Yehuda

7 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

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.” Avi Glazer, on a 1‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.

In brief

Back issues
4 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

Door shut on Adi Yona

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

Transfer targets

Too dear: Bnei Yehuda walk away from Shachar Rosen

$210.0K 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

Words exchanged at Bnei Yehuda

Amir Ben-Shimon 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

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.

Transfer targets

Bnei Yehuda try to borrow Felipe Longo

Corinthians 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

Bnei Yehuda try to borrow Hernán Taborda

Talleres 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.

Boardroom

Bnei Yehuda turn down the training-ground plan

It is the quietest way a club tells you what its ambitions are. The money was asked for, the money was refused, and the people who work there every day now know exactly where they stand.

Looking ahead

A reunion for Tomer Litvinov

He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Hapoel Acre in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.

Looking ahead

Home comforts ahead for Bnei Yehuda

Hapoel Acre, position 14, come to town on Saturday. Nobody will call it a big game and nobody at the club will be treating it as anything else.

In brief

3 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

No deal for Hélio Varela at that price

Bnei Yehuda offered $2.3M; Maccabi Tel Aviv said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

Transfer targets

Bnei Yehuda rebuffed over Cédric Don

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

Transfer targets

Bnei Yehuda make their move for Nevot Ratner

$94.0K on the table at Maccabi Haifa. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

In brief

2 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

Door shut on Hamode Kanaan

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

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

No deal for Anas Mahamid at that price

Bnei Yehuda offered $1.5M; Hapoel Tel Aviv said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Gian Piaggio rejects the move

Bnei Yehuda had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Colón, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

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.

Market

Bnei Yehuda promote Matan Melikson from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Matan Melikson 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 Levy from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Itay 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

Nir Hemed steps up from the Bnei Yehuda academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Nir Hemed 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.

In brief

1 Edition

The Bnei Yehuda Herald

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

Bnei Yehuda bid $1.3M for Anas Mahamid

The offer went to Hapoel Tel Aviv 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.

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.

Transfer targets

Bnei Yehuda rebuffed over Gabriel Słonina

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

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 Gian Piaggio

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

Squad

Bnei Yehuda are still strangers to each other

6 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

The dugout

Tamir Berman 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 Tamir Berman trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief