1 first step to the 2023 World Cup to be held in Japan, the Philippines and Indonesia.
Israel will play in the first round of the qualifying tournament with the teams of Germany, Poland and Estonia.
The three teams that will emerge from this house will unite in the second stage with the three emigrants from the home of Slovenia, Croatia, Finland and Sweden.
The first three from this house will qualify for the World Championships.
Israel has a reasonable lottery at least in the early stages, but it is difficult to predict what will happen because it is not known who will take part in the games.
The story of the qualifiers is the national teams.
The games are held in six windows.
NBA players will not attend NBA games, nor will Euroleague players due to a dispute with FIBA (in the past there have been isolated cases where teams have agreed to release players).
Gal sticks in the team uniform.
Reasonable lottery, at least in the early stages,
2 Germany recorded a great achievement in the summer when they qualified for the Olympic tournament.
For most of the qualifiers, it is supposed to appear with a secondary team, and note that its two games against Israel will be in the windows during the season.
This means that a number of Germany's NBA players, led by Dennis Schroeder, will not be able to participate, as will Alba Berlin and Bayern Munich's players from the Euroleague, such as Maudo Lou, Paul Zipper, Andreas Obst, and Nils Gippy from Zalgiris Kaunas.
In this situation quite a few young and old Robin Benzing and Yoshko Saibo will bear the burden.
A new coach was seen on the lines in Germany, after Henrik Rudel had finished his job.
3 Poland Israel won twice in the European Championship qualifiers, but on the other hand the Poles reached a tremendous achievement at the 2019 World Championships when they finished in eighth place.
Their big problem is the possible absence of big star Matthias Ponitka, a player from Zenit St Petersburg from the Euroleague.
All the others - including the citizen EJ Slaughter and Michal Sokolowski ex Hapoel Holon - will be available.
Estonia looks weak at home, but is making progress and has secured a place in the European Championships next summer.
Danny Abdia.
Will not get to most games // Photo: AFP,
4 The Israeli team will also suffer from shortages: Danny Abdia will not be able to play in at least four of the windows, as will players from Maccabi Tel Aviv and Tamir Blatt and Yuval Sussman from Alba Berlin. On the other hand, juniors like Yam Madar and Tomer Ginat who play in the EuroCup will come.
At the same time, if the dates of the second stage work out and Israel and Slovenia qualify for it, we may have a surprise ahead of us: a meeting with Luka Doncic, perhaps even in Israel.
