Hila Kanister Bar David, chair of the management of the Women's Super League in Basketball, announces today (Thursday), on the eve of the opening of the new season of games in the Athena Winner Women's Basketball League 2022/2023, that this will be her last season, in which she will serve as chair of the management after 3 and a half years and she She will finish her job this April with the end of the season.
Hila canister Bar David.
You will leave after 4 years, photo: Director of the Women's Basketball Super League
Knister Bar David, who assumed the position in November 2019 and does it fully voluntarily, decided before taking on the position, that she would do so for a period of only 4 basketball seasons and she finds it appropriate to announce this in advance, with the beginning of the fourth season.
During her tenure, and despite the period of the corona epidemic that interrupted the league's activities several times, Kanister Bar David managed to bring the women's basketball Premier League manager to a record in the income of the teams and the manager, when the league's budget increased significantly and currently stands at approximately NIS 9.7 million per year.
In addition, during Kanister Bar David's tenure, the number of teams in the league increased from nine to ten teams, from Haifa in the north to Ashdod in the south, and for the first time, all league games were broadcast live through cameras that were placed in all league fields, making the games accessible to the general public through social networks.
Hila Kanister Bar David:
"We are very excited today to open the 22/23 basketball season in the Women's Basketball Premier League, a competitive league at the highest professional level, with four teams that qualified for the group stage of the Eurocup, and will face the best teams in Europe for the first time in 20 years."
"In recent years, I voluntarily took it upon myself to lead the largest women's sports branch in Israel. When I took office, I was amazed to discover the huge gaps between the institutional budgeting that goes to men's sports and the government budgeting for women's sports. After difficult struggles, we managed to significantly increase the budget, harness partners commercials to go, to increase media exposure and to pour millions of shekels into women's basketball to promote the status of Israeli players - budgets that were previously reserved for men only."
"To my disappointment, there are still large gaps between the government budgets intended for women's sports in relation to men's sports budgets. I would expect women's basketball to receive the national budgetary recognition it deserves as the largest women's team sport in Israel, and I have no doubt that if the state had indeed provided the appropriate budgets, it would have The industry can be lifted to even higher heights."
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