Ido Shahar

Ido Shahar was born in 2001 in Gat

Ido Shahar was born on 20 August 2001 and grew up in Kibbutz Gat in southern Israel. His family is of Hungarian Jewish descent, and he also holds a Hungarian passport.

He started playing in the children's team of F.C. Kiryat Gat. At 11 he joined the youth department of Maccabi Tel Aviv. In 2019 he was loaned to Beitar Tel Aviv Bat Yam, where he made his senior debut.

He played for Hapoel Haifa in 2020 and returned to Maccabi Tel Aviv in 2021. In 2022 he was loaned to Maccabi Petah Tikva and then to Apollon Limassol in Cyprus. Back at Maccabi Tel Aviv, he played in midfield and at right-back, and the club won the league in 2023/2024 and 2024/2025.

He played for Israel's youth teams and made 19 appearances for the under-21 team. In March 2024 he was first called up to the senior national team, and he was in Israel's squad for the 2024 Paris Olympics. He married Gali Azulay in Cyprus in 2025, and they have a son.