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Israeli Basketball League Budgets Revealed for 2026-27 Season

Hapoel Tel Aviv has the highest budget at 199 million shekels for the 2026-27 Israeli Basketball Premier League season, followed by Maccabi Tel Aviv at 153.1 million shekels. The budgets reveal a wide financial gap between the top teams and the rest of the league.

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  1. 01Hapoel Tel Aviv leads the Israeli Basketball Premier League with a 199 million shekel budget for the 2026-27 season.
  2. 02Maccabi Tel Aviv is second with a 153.1 million shekel budget, the only other team over 100 million.
  3. 03Hapoel Jerusalem and Ironi Ness Ziona rank third and fourth with 65 and 40 million shekels respectively.
  4. 04Newly promoted teams from Eilat and Ashdod are ranked seventh and ninth.
  5. 05Ironi Kiryat Ata has the league's lowest budget at 8 million shekels.
  6. 06The reported figures are total team budgets, not solely player salaries.

Ironi Kiryat Ata has the lowest budget at 8 million shekels. The season is set to begin with a game between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Hapoel Galil Elyon.

Translated and summarized by baba from N12, the latest report. Read N12’s original

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