Who will breeze this time?

15 years to the last final between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Hapoel Jerusalem

Since 2007, the two richest teams in Israel have not reached a direct battle for the championship.

In most cases they finished in the first two places, and one always qualified for the final, but the other fell by the wayside.

Who is responsible for most of the dismissals?

And will Avi Even and Yotam Halperin break the drought?

Ahrela Weisberg

26/05/2022

Thursday, May 26, 2022, 9 p.m.

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We ticked off: Today's summary clip, 25.5 (Sports 1)

This coming Monday will mark the 15th anniversary of the most dramatic championship evening in the history of Israeli basketball.

The reigning champion Maccabi Tel Aviv met the holder of the Hapoel Jerusalem State Cup in the final at Yad Eliyahu, and the Reds stood as a step away from a historic double and the first swing of the plate.

Then it happened: Sami Bachar took out Meir Tapiro in the fifth offense, who wept bitterly on the bench with about four and a half minutes left, the Yellows went on the last attack one point behind, Sharon Sasson missed, but Jamie Arnold picked up the offensive rebound and made a comeback - and the title remained Spring.

"The game that was not," that capital is called in the capital.

Bachar has since retired, but in his work as an observer he has never approached the arena, and has been cursing there to this day.

The sequence of 14 wins that Maccabi reached that evening was broken a year later and has not been restored;

Jerusalem, for its part, managed to take two championships and add three more trophies to them.

Fifteen years have passed, with each season expecting a classic final between the two richest teams in Israel, but since 2007 it has not happened even once.

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Jerusalem was eliminated in ten cases, Maccabi in three.

Meir Tapiro and Sami Bachar in 2007 (Photo: screenshot, from Channel 10)

For 14 consecutive seasons, one of the two always reached the final - and the other the breeze.

In most cases (8) they even shared the first two places in the final table of the Premier League, and something always went wrong along the way.

In ten seasons, Jerusalem was eliminated in the semifinals or quarterfinals, or did not advance to the knockout stages at all;

Maccabi has flown in three other seasons;

Once they met for a direct battle, but only in the semifinals.

Maccabi Rishon Lezion is the main "strike of joy", and directly prevented the Israeli Clasico in the final in four cases;

Hapoel Gilboa / Galil and Maccabi Haifa did it three times, and Hapoel Holon and Hapoel Eilat also ousted the yellows or reds once.

Tonight (Thursday, 21:00) the playoff semifinals in Israel will open, and perhaps this time - when Maccabi and Jerusalem are far from their peak, putting the main scout and professional manager on the lines, and about to end a difficult and bumpy season - they will succeed in the task.

The Yellows will meet Bnei Herzliya, and the Reds will play starting tomorrow at 15:00 against Holon.

Collectors' item: a ticket to the last final between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Hapoel Jerusalem, in 2007 (Photo: Photos by surfers, Sahar Rahamim)

The faucet parade since 2008:

• 2021 - Hapoel Jerusalem eliminated in the quarterfinals

• 2020 - Hapoel Jerusalem eliminated in the semifinals

• 2019 - Hapoel Jerusalem was eliminated in the semifinals

• 2018 - Hapoel Jerusalem was eliminated in the semifinals

• 2017 - Maccabi Tel Aviv was eliminated in the semifinals

• 2016 - Maccabi Tel Aviv was eliminated in the semifinals

• 2015 - Maccabi Tel Aviv was eliminated in the semifinals

• 2014 - Hapoel Jerusalem was eliminated in the semifinals

• 2013 - The two teams met in the semifinals

• 2012 - Hapoel Jerusalem was eliminated in the quarterfinals

• 2011 - Hapoel Jerusalem was eliminated in the semifinals

• 2010 - Hapoel Jerusalem was eliminated in the semifinals

• 2009 - Hapoel Jerusalem was eliminated in the semifinals

• 2008 - Hapoel Jerusalem did not advance to the Final Four

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