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Shooting Upward
MSRP $34,850
OR LESS
Doron Sheffer's NBA breakthrough gives hope to
other aspiring Israeli basketball players.
NEW
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Leather, Moonroof, Power Seating & Much More!
LARRY DERFNER ISRAEL CORRESPONDENT
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THE 1996 VOLVO 960. LORDED WITH WHAT MATTERS.
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SMART CHOICE 1: $159 on Tercel
$185 on Corolla
$239 on Camry
36 mo. (24 mo. on 4x4 & T100) closed end lease w/approved credit. 1st pymt. $0 acq.
' 24 mo. closed end lease w/approved credit. 1st pymt., acq. fee, dest., tax, title, $30
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tear. 12,000 mi. per year. w/10C per mi. excess charge. Lessee has option to purchase at Lessee rasp. for excess wear & tear. 12,000 mi. per year w/100 per mi. excess charge.
predetermined price at lease inception. To get total multiply pymt. x term. Subject to pre- Lessee has option to purchase at predetermined price at lease inception. To get total
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SMART CHOICE 2: $199 on Tercel
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big Israeli TV audience for while basketball really belongs
1996 Olympic basketball to America. And Israelis have
was always a given, but at been playing and watching soc-
the end of June basketball cer throughout the century;
fandom in the Jewish state took they've been basketball fans for
a giant leap forward: The first Is- just a little more than a genera-
raeli player ever was chosen in tion.
the NBA draft.
In grossly general terms, soc-
Doron Sheffer, star guard for cer is the game of poor and work-
the University of Connecticut, ing-class Sephardis, while
was picked in the second round basketball is favored by middle-
by the Los Angeles Clippers. It class Ashkenazis. Dr. Naomi
was front-page news in the Is- Feigin, a sociologist at Netanya's
raeli newspapers. Speculation Wingate Institute for Sport, was
on how high he would go in the hard-pressed to provide a rea-
draft had been a major preoccu- son for this, but she suggested
pation of the sports pages for that "to play basketball you need
days. (He ended up the 36th facilities — a court, a backboard
player chosen.) Mr. Sheffer's and a hoop — usually found at
mother was interviewed on TV parks, which are relatively
talk shows. There were mazel scarce in poor neighborhoods.
toys all around.
But anybody can play soccer —
Before going off to UConn, Mr.
all you need is a ball."
Sheffer played for the team that
Israelis keep up with the NBA
"made" basketball in Israel — on cable TV. (More times than I
Maccabi Tel Aviv. In the 1970s, care to remember, Israeli guys,
'80s and '90s, Maccabi won 23 upon learning that my name
consecutive Israeli National was "Larry," would take to call-
League titles. It rep-
resented Israel annu-
ally against the best
European teams in
the European Cup
games.
When Maccabi first
won the Cup in 1977,
fans leaped into the
fountain in Tel Aviv's
Kikar Malchei Yisrael
(later the site of
Yitzhak Rabin's mur-
der, and renamed
Kikar Rabin). Before
a nationwide televi-
sion audience, the
captain of the team,
former University of
Illinois player Tal
Brody, held the cup
aloft and uttered the
most famous line in
Israeli sports history:
"We're on the map."
Now that Israeli
National League and
European Cup games
are a fixture on tele-
vision, the best local
players command Doron Sheffer in action for University of Connecticut.
yearly salaries in the
low six figures, and one or two ing me "Larry Bird.") Israeli Na-
popular favorites get to endorse tional League basketball, which
Israeli candy bars, sneakers, soft has teams in all the major cities,
is a far inferior game to the
drinks and the like.
Yet basketball is only the sec- NBA. The players are shorter,
ond most popular sport in the slower, more conservative,
country — soccer is first. Soccer nowhere close in talent. Im-
incites much stronger passions. ported players are usually ex-
State-sponsored weekly betting NBA also-rans, or, like Maccabi's
pools, which can bring the win- Tom Chambers (formerly of the
ner as much as $7 million (tax- Phoenix Suns), good players long
free), are held only for soccer. past their prime.
Yet after watching Michael
Soccer is the world's mania,