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The Israel national basketball team is the Basketball side that represents Israel in international competition. The Israely team has participated 22 times in the European championship turnament. their best achievement was the Silver Medal in Eurobasket 1979 that took place in Italy . EUROBASKET 1953 Israel made their European championship tournament debut in Eurobasket 1953 in Moscow , coming within a tie-breaker of taking the Silver Medal . In the preliminary round, the Israeli squad won their group by tie-breaker after being one of three teams to finish with a 3-1 record. They advanced to the final round, managing to defeat perennial power Czechoslovakia and taking revenge on Yugoslavia for their preliminary round loss. Their record in the final round was 4-3, putting them in a 4-way tie for second place behind the undefeated Soviet Union . Israel came out on the bottom of that tie-breaker, finishing in 5th place of the 17 teams. Israel's overall record of 7 wins and 4 losses included two wins by forfeit over Lebanon (in the preliminary round) and Egypt (in the final round), each of which had refused to play against Israel. 2005 ROSTER
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