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Harrison Bader, Dean Kremer and Garrett Stubbs headline Israel\u2019s roster for the 2026 World Baseball Classic. (Getty Images)<\/p>\n Harrison Bader, Dean Kremer and Garrett Stubbs headline Israel\u2019s roster for the 2026 World Baseball Classic. (Getty Images)<\/p>\n
Jacob Gurvis<\/p>\n
A pitcher for the Minnesota Twins whose father-in-law is an Israeli-American pharmaceutical executive and political activist is one of the new additions to Team Israel ahead of next month\u2019s World Baseball Classic.<\/p>\n
With sixth edition of the international tournament exactly one month away, all 20 competing countries have now revealed their 30-man rosters. Team Israel, which qualified by\u00a0winning a game in the 2023 Classic<\/a>, announced its lineup on Thursday.<\/p>\n Those competing for Israel include a number of MLB players as well as some younger newcomers \u2014 though perhaps the biggest Jewish star in baseball,\u00a0Chicago Cubs third baseman Alex Bregman<\/a>, is instead playing for the U.S. team.<\/p>\n Suited up in blue and white will be San Francisco Giants outfielder Harrison Bader, the highest-profile addition to the roster, as well as Tommy Kahnle and Matt Bowman, MLB veterans who previously had no reported ties to the team.<\/p>\n For the WBC, players who are eligible for citizenship of a country are eligible to represent it in the tournament, regardless of their actual citizenship status. In Israel\u2019s case, that typically includes mostly American Jews \u2014 and occasionally those married to American Jews \u2014 who are eligible for Israeli citizenship under the country\u2019s Law of Return.<\/p>\n Bowman\u2019s wife, Eve Levin, is an attorney whose father Jeremy Levin is a prominent businessman who lived in Israel as a young adult and once ran Teva Pharmaceuticals, the country\u2019s largest company. Jeremy Levin is also a political activist who has lobbied for Democratic candidates and progressive policies in the United States as well as in support of democracy in Israel, running on a slate in last year\u2019s World Zionist Congress elections. (Eve Levin\u2019s\u00a0maternal grandfather<\/a>\u00a0was also a businessman; he transformed his Jewish family\u2019s hosiery business into the company that operates T.J. Maxx.)<\/p>\n