Rami Hadar

Rami Hadar was born in 1966 in Israel

Rami Hadar was born in 1966 and grew up in Kiryat Tiv'on. He is the son of former basketball player Dani Hadar. As a youth he played point guard for Hapoel Kiryat Tiv'on.

At 18 he left basketball and joined the Israeli Navy, where he served in the missile boat flotilla and completed officers' course. He later played in the lower leagues while studying for a coaching diploma.

He began coaching in 1992 as an assistant at Hapoel Givatayim and in 1994 briefly led Hapoel Holon. After a spell away from the sport running an architecture models business, he returned to coach lower league teams. In 2012 he took over Maccabi Haifa, served as assistant when the club won the title in 2012/13, and later returned as its head coach.

In 2016 he became head coach of Maccabi Tel Aviv and resigned in December. In 2017 he coached Hapoel Tel Aviv, becoming the first coach to lead both Tel Aviv clubs in one season. He then coached SCM U Craiova and, from 2018, Hapoel Be'er Sheva.

In 2023 he coached KB Peja in Kosovo and was named coach of the Kosovo national team, a post he left in 2024. He later returned to coach Hapoel Be'er Sheva Dimona.