Oded Kattash

Oded Kattash was born in 1974 in Givatayim

Kattash was born on October 10, 1974, in Givatayim. His father was born in Egypt and his mother in Algeria. He attended Shimon Ben Zvi High School.

He began playing in the youth teams of Maccabi Ramat Gan and then Maccabi Tel Aviv. He later played for Maccabi Darom, Maccabi Ramat Gan and Hapoel Galil Elyon before joining the senior team of Maccabi Tel Aviv. There he won 4 Israeli League championships and 2 State Cups, and he was the league MVP in 1998.

He led scoring at the 1997 EuroBasket with the Israeli national team. He agreed to join the New York Knicks, but the 1998 NBA lockout kept him from playing there. With Panathinaikos he won the 2000 EuroLeague final against Maccabi Tel Aviv, then suffered a serious knee injury and retired in 2004.

As a coach he led Hapoel Galil Elyon and briefly Maccabi Tel Aviv, and won the 2010 Israeli championship with Hapoel Gilboa Galil. He then coached Hapoel Jerusalem, Hapoel Eilat and Hapoel Tel Aviv. He was named head coach of the Israeli national team in 2017, joined Panathinaikos in 2021 and later became head coach of Maccabi Tel Aviv.