Avraham Bendori, Israeli football player, Died at 90

Avraham Bendori was on June 21, 1928, in Tel Aviv and died on January 15, 2019.

He was an Israeli footballer.

He played for Maccabi Tel Aviv and the Israeli national team.

Later, he worked as a manager. Bendori was part of the Maccabi Michael youth team, which won back to back youth championship in the mid-1940s.

During 1946 Bendori was promoted to the senior team and played with the team until the end of the 1959–60 season, winning 6 league titles and 6 cups with the club.

When he retired, he coached several teams without much success and served as the national team's director.

He was 20 years during the Israeli War for Independence, fought in the Samson's Foxes unit, and was injured on the Egyptian front, near Iraq Suwaydan, when the jeep he was driving was bombarded.

He was hospitalized for several weeks and was released to take part in the national teams' tour of the U.S.

Avraham Bendori passed away at 90 years old.