Israel national ice hockey team
The Israeli national hockey team of men is performed after the World Cup 2011 in the IIHF World Ranking at number 40 and plays at the World Championships in Division II is organized by the Israel National Hockey Association.
In 1992, the team for the first time at a World Ice Hockey Championships in part, a medal, the team could not win, however, until now. For Olympic Games, the Israeli national team could never qualify. A twist of fate saw the team at the 1996 World Cup: First, the team could only qualify for the D- Cup, because the defeats at the qualifying tournament against opponents Greece because of the use of unauthorized players on the Greek side at the green table in 5-0 victory were converted, but the D - Cup befell Israel the same fate. It lost the first round matches against Bulgaria and Belgium on green table with 0:5, as it had with the Russian - Israelis Ariel Ben- Youri and Alex Vital used two non- players eligible players.
The biggest success of the team was the rise in the championship Division I in 2005, from which it had to go back, however, after only one tournament. In the 2010 World Cup, the team ended after five defeats the last place in the discharged in Narva group B of Division II and first rose so that after ten years back in the bottom division of the world championships from. However, the Israelis succeeded in the following year the immediate promotion back to Division II
World Championships
- 2003: 5th Division II, Group B
- 2004: 5th Division II, Group A
- 2005: 1st Division II, Group B
- 2006: 6th Division I, Group A
- 2007: 3rd Division II, Group B
- 2008: 4th Division II, Group A
- 2009: 5th Division II, Group A
- 2010: Division 6 II, Group B
- 2011: 1st Division III
- 2012: 5th Division II, Group B
- 2013: 1st Division II, Group B
Head coach at World Championships
- 2001-2004 Boris Mindel
- 2005-2009 Jean Perron
- 2010 Boris Mindel
- 2011 Sergei Belo
- Since 2011, Jean Perron