World 2007 qualifiers In the winter of 2006 the team had failed to qualify to the
2007 world championship after finishing third at the
qualifications – behind
Austria and
Finland.
Euro 2008 qualifiers In the winter of 2007 Israel again failed to
qualify, this time to the
2008 European Championships. Despite an impressive home win 30:29 against the very strong team of
Serbia, Israel lost twice to Macedonia, and finished again finished third, behind Serbia and
Republic of Macedonia and ahead of
Luxembourg.
World 2009 qualifiers In the following winter Israel met Serbian again, at the
2009 World Championships Qualifying. This time it lost both games to Serbia, and finished second (out of three) after beating
The Faroe Islands at both games.
Euro 2010 qualifiers In the
2010 European Championships qualifying, held in 2008 and 2009, Israel was drawn into group 5, together with the world champions,
Germany,
Slovenia,
Belarus and
Bulgaria. Israel lost both games to Slovenia, Belarus and Germany, and only won both games against Bulgaria. The team's captain was Idan Maimon, and its leading players were
Avishay Smoler of German team
TBV Lemgo,
Chen Pomerantz,
Tom Matalon,
Gal Avraham and
goalkeeper Leonid Durashenko. ==Team==