11 Facts About Rami Hadar

When he turned 18, Rami Hadar decided to retire from basketball and join the IDF Navy Branch.

Five years later, Rami Hadar resumed his basketball career and played in the Israeli Basketball lower leagues for few years as he was studying to complete his course work to gain a basketball coaching diploma.

Rami Hadar's coaching career began in 1992, when he got his first job as an assistant for Hanoch Mintz in Hapoel Givatayim.

Rami Hadar described the time out of basketball as years that helped him to "understand life better and to develop his personality".

Rami Hadar found this incident hard to digest and decided to resign at the end of the season after he led Be'er Ya'akov to the second-tier league playoffs.

Rami Hadar coached Maccabi Haifa in the 11 remaining games of the season; he earned 2 wins and 9 losses.

One season later, Rami Hadar returned to Liga Leumit and signed a one-year contract with Hapoel Afula where he ended the season in the 2nd place in the league, and earned his place as the head coach of Maccabi Haifa which he led twice to the league quarter-finals playoffs and to the semi-finals of the Israeli cup the following two years.

In July 2016, Rami Hadar was appointed as assistant manager for Maccabi Tel Aviv under head coach Erez Edelstein.

Three months later, Rami Hadar replaced Erez Edelstein as the head coach on 22 October 2016 after Edelstein was fired due to a poor start of the season.

On 3 January 2017, Rami Hadar was appointed as head coach for Hapoel Tel Aviv and became the first head coach to manage Maccabi and Hapoel Tel Aviv at the same season.

On 7 July 2017, Rami Hadar was appointed as the head coach for SCM U Craiova of the Romanian League.