Yehoshua Rozin was an Israeli basketball coach.

Early life and career

Rozin was born in Alexandria, Egypt. He moved to Israel at the age of six.

Rozin played for Maccabi Tel Aviv

Maccabi Tel Aviv

Maccabi Tel Aviv is the biggest sports club in Israel and a part of the Maccabi association. It runs many sports club and teams in Tel Aviv, which compete in a variety of sports, such as football, basketball, judo, swimming, handball, and others....

 in basketball in the 1930s and 1940s, beginning at the age of 14.

In 1948, he became the first coach of the Israel national basketball team

Israel national basketball team

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. He led it to three European Tournament finals.

Rozin was the first coach of the Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball team and coached it for 18 years, starting in 1953.

During his career he also coached Hapoel Givat-Yagur, Hapoel Holon

Hapoel Holon

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, Hapoel Givat Brenner

Givat Brenner

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, Elitzur Tel Aviv, Hapoel Haifa, Hapoel Jerusalem

Hapoel Jerusalem

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, Maccabi Ramat Gan

Maccabi Ramat Gan

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, and Hapoel Tel Aviv

Hapoel Tel Aviv

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In 1999, Rozin was awarded the Israel Prize

Israel Prize

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for his contribution to sport.

He died in 2002, at the age of 83.