Doron Sheffer

Doron Sheffer was born in 1972 in Ramat Ef'al

Doron Sheffer was born on 12 March 1972 in Ramat Ef'al. As a youth he played for the Ramat Ef'al sports club and for Hapoel Givatayim. He attended Tichon Hadash high school in Tel Aviv.

He played for Hapoel Galil Elyon from 1990 to 1993 and won the Israeli championship with the club in 1992/1993. He was named player of that season.

From 1993 to 1996 he played college basketball at the University of Connecticut under coach Jim Calhoun. He was the Big East Rookie of the Year in his first season, and the team won 3 straight Big East titles. His nickname there was The Iceman.

The Los Angeles Clippers chose him with the 36th pick of the 1996 NBA draft, but he signed with Maccabi Tel Aviv and won 4 Israeli titles there. He retired in 2000 and was treated for cancer, then returned and joined Hapoel Jerusalem, which won the ULEB Cup in 2004. He played for Israel at 4 EuroBasket tournaments.

He retired and returned several times, and became religiously observant, studying at a yeshiva in Jerusalem. He coached youth basketball in Kfar Vradim from 2009 to 2012 and retired for good in 2014. He lives in Moshav Amirim and published books in 2013 and 2017.