Israel Basketball

Hapoel Tel Aviv is an Israeli basketball club. It is considered the second largest club in Israel in terms of trophies and followers. It was established as part of the Tel Aviv Histadrut branch.

In 1995 it was sold to private businessmen, and since then it has suffered from financial problems which led to its relegation twice to the second division and a boycott by most of its fans, blaming the current owners for the club's poor status.

"Hapoel" (i.e. the worker) Tel Aviv basketball club (Hebrew: מועדון הכדורסל הפועל תל אביב), or "Hapoel" ,is the second largest basketball club in Israel. It was founded in 1935, as part of the Tel Aviv branch of the "Hapoel" sports cooperative, the sports department of the Histadrut labour union. The 15 years following the foundation of the Israeli national league in 1954 are still considered as the golden age in the club's history. During which it has won most of its trophies and risen to become a dominant force in Israeli basketball. However, since then the club has failed to repeat its past success and was forced to watch as its bitter city rivals Maccabi Tel aviv beat them constantly on the race to trophies and European glory.