{"id":176035,"date":"2025-12-09T14:56:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T14:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/176035\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T14:56:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T14:56:07","slug":"european-basketball-returns-to-israel-nearly-800-days-after-the-gaza-war-began","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/176035\/","title":{"rendered":"European Basketball Returns to Israel Nearly 800 Days After the Gaza War Began"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"rXoKk hYDRe hnysah jUVRgC gZAOgR kTHets jRwofS qSgdC brXQGp kHlstv eeFyyU krpnci cLDOsk cgtMrY TSpXR dUvWpK hRLVFh idISHb\">On October 3, 2023, Hapoel Tel Aviv opened its European basketball season in the EuroCup with a 100\u201373 home win over Slovenia&#8217;s Cedevita Ljubljana at the Drive-In arena. Two days later, Maccabi Tel Aviv began its EuroLeague season against Serbian side Partizan Belgrade, winning 96\u201381. It was a highly successful 48 hours of European basketball in Tel Aviv, drawing a total of 13,921 fans. None of them could have imagined that their team&#8217;s next home game in a European competition would take place two years and two months later. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On October 3, 2023, Hapoel Tel Aviv opened its European basketball season in the EuroCup with a 100\u201373&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[50,85,46,23768,1513,43,3215],"class_list":["post-176035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-gaza","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-israel-sport","tag-israel-gaza-war","tag-news","tag-october-7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}