Schwartz was born in
Kiryat Motzkin, Israel. He is 1.95 m tall. Schwartz then played in the
Israeli Basketball Premier League for
Hapoel Haifa (1973–75),
Maccabi Tel Aviv (1975-81), and Beitar Tel Aviv (1981–83). He was part of the Maccabi Tel Aviv Israeli team that in the
1976–77 FIBA European Champions Cup (EuroLeague) semifinals defeated
CSKA Moscow — the
Red Army team—in a dramatic upset, on its way to winning its first European Championship. Schwartz recalled four decades later: "The one great thing about our team was teamwork. In every organization it’s a matter of building the right team, and you need to know how to play together. Each player on the team was a winner, but when it comes to playing together, that was our secret. Most of us were friends both on and off of the court and even today we meet and see each other. We are really friends. That was our secret. He also played for the
Israeli national basketball team. Schwartz competed in the
1971 FIBA European Championship for Cadets, the
1974 Asian Games (at which Israel won a
gold medal), the
1975 FIBA European Championship for Men, the
1977 FIBA European Championship for Men, and the
1979 FIBA European Championship for Men (at which Israel won a
silver medal). == References ==