Aluma Goren

Aluma Goren was born in 1969 in Givat Haim Meuhad

Aluma Goren was born on December 10, 1969, and grew up on Kibbutz Givat Haim Meuhad. She began playing for Hapoel Givat Haim. At Hof HaCarmel high school she won the Israeli schools championship 3 times and the world high school championship twice.

She joined Israel's cadet team in 1984 and played for the women's national team at the 12th Maccabiah in 1985. In November 1986 she scored 52 points in a league game. With Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv she won the State Cup with a basket 2 seconds before the end of the final.

After her army service she played at the University of Maryland in the United States in 1990/91. She later spent most of her career at A.S. Ramat HaSharon, where she was captain and won 4 championships and 3 cups. She left the national team in November 2002 after 18 years.

In December 2002 a benign brain tumor was found, and surgery cost her the sight in her left eye. She returned to play in June 2003 and retired at the end of the 2004/05 season. She then coached Maccabi Hadera and later worked as a mental coach, including at Hapoel Haifa.

She entered the Israeli women's basketball Hall of Fame in 2020 and the first class of the Israeli Basketball Hall of Fame in 2026. She has a child with her former partner Daniela Yaakobi, and they separated in 2009.