Oded Kattash

When Kattash was 9 years old, he joined the junior youth department of Maccabi Tel Aviv. He then played with Maccabi Darom, which was Maccabi Tel Aviv's farm team at the time.

Kattash played with Maccabi Ramat Gan, and Hapoel Galil Elyon, before returning in 1995, to Maccabi Tel Aviv, to join their senior men's team. With Macabbi's senior team, he won 4 Israeli League championships and 2 Israeli State Cups. He was the 1998 Israeli Basketball Premier League MVP. After leading the 1997 EuroBasket in scoring, he subsequently agreed to play with the New York Knicks, but he never actually played in the NBA, because of the 1998–99 NBA season lockout, that started on July 1, 1998.

Eventually, he signed a three-year contract with Panathinaikos. In the 2000 EuroLeague Finals game, he scored 17 points, against his former team Maccabi Tel Aviv, to win the EuroLeague championship with Panathinaikos. His career ended prematurely a few months later, when he suffered a serious knee injury.

Kattash played at the 1997 edition of the EuroBasket, with the senior Israeli national team, scoring 22 points per game during the tournament.

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After Kattash retired from playing basketball, he took up basketball coaching, and he first coached Hapoel Galil Elyon. He was the head coach of Macabbi Tel Aviv, from summer of 2007, until January 1, 2008, when he resigned.{{cite web |url= http://www.euroleague.net/news/i/21529/maccabi-bench-kattash-resigns-sherf-in |title= Maccabi bench: Kattash resigns, Sherf in|last1= Arbel, Tel Aviv|first1= Yarone |date= 1 January 2008 |website= euroleague.net |publisher= Euroleague|access-date= 20 November 2015}}

Shortly after, he returned to Galil Elyon, and helped the team stay in the Israeli first division. In 2009, he remained with Galil, leading them against the odds, to the Israeli League Final Four, and coming within a last shot of knocking out Maccabi Tel Aviv in the semifinals. In 2010, he won the Israeli League championship with Galil, after a win over Maccabi Tel Aviv in the league finals.

In June 2010, Kattash was appointed as Hapoel Jerusalem's head coach, signing a three-year contract.{{cite news |last= Last |first=Jeremy |date=15 June 2010|title= Local Hoops: Hapoel J'lem signs Katash for 3-year stint|url= http://www.jpost.com/Home/Article.aspx?id=178473|newspaper=Jerusalem Post |location=Jerusalem |access-date= 20 November 2015}}

On June 21, 2012, Kattash was appointed the head coach of Hapoel Eilat, as the team was re-included into the Israeli Premier League, for the 2012-13 season.{{cite news |last= Gellar|first= Raphael|title=Israeli Basketball Preview 2012-2013 |url=http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/israeli-basketball-preview-2012-2013/ |newspaper=The Times of Israel |access-date=20 November 2015|date=11 October 2012 }}

On June 27, 2014, at the end of his contract, Kattash signed a three-year contract with Hapoel Tel Aviv. On November 3, 2015, he was dismissed, after only four games, after three consecutive losses. He subsequently returned to Hapoel Eilat. However, On July 18, 2017, Hapoel Eilat and Kattash decided to part ways. During that summer, Kattash led the Israel men's under-20 national team to a silver medal at the 2017 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship.

On October 10, 2017, The Basketball Federation of Israel, named Kattash the new head coach of the senior Israeli national team, for the next four years.{{cite web|url=http://basket.co.il/news.asp?id=16066|title=עודד קטש מונה למאמן נבחרת ישראל|date=October 10, 2017|work=basket.co.il|access-date=October 10, 2017|language=he}}

On February 22, 2018, Kattash returned for a second stint to Hapoel Jerusalem, signing a one-and-a-half-year deal.{{cite web|url=https://sportando.basketball/en/europe/israel/265655/hapoel-jerusalem-name-oded-katash-head-coach.html|title=Hapoel Jerusalem name Oded Katash head coach|date=February 22, 2018|work=Sportando.com|access-date=February 22, 2018}}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{cite web|url=http://basket.co.il/news.asp?id=17605|title=שינוי על הקווים: קטש חוזר לבירה|date=February 22, 2018|work=basket.co.il|access-date=February 22, 2018|language=he}}

On January 14, 2021, Kattash signed a one-and-a-half-year deal with Panathinaikos of the Greek Basket League and the EuroLeague.[https://sportando.basketball/en/panathinaikos-announces-oded-katash/ Panathinaikos announces Oded Katash]

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| align="left"|Panathinaikos

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| 16 || 5 || 11 || {{Winning percentage|5|11}} || align="center"|Eliminated in the regular season

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• Kattash is of Algerian descent.
• Kattash is known to have different-coloured irises, a condition known as heterochromia of the irises (heterochromia iridis).
• Kattash is a good friend with the former player and current coach Dror Cohen. They have a long history of playing and coaching together.[https://www.israelhayom.co.il/article/854081 "אנחנו לא נחותים משום נבחרת באירופה"] Yaakov Meir (Israel Hayom), 22 February 2021. Accessed 5 July 2021.{{in lang|he}}

• List of select Jewish basketball players

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• [https://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/p/rpp//q/David%20Oded%20KATTACHE/pid/10728/_//players.html FIBA Profile]
• [http://www.fibaeurope.com/compID_qMRZdYCZI6EoANOrUf9le2.season_2001.roundID_228.playerID_10728.teamID_306.html FIBA Europe Profile]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20050105023934/http://www.24sec.net/article.asp?index=81 Article about Kattash]
• [http://www.jewishsports.com/profiles/katash.htm Kattash and Knicks]
• [http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/06/05/sports/ME-SPT-BKB-Maccabi-Tel-Aviv-Coach.php News piece] about coaching Maccabi
• {{cite news |author= Sinai, Allon|title=Local Hoops: Kattash steps down as Maccabi TA coach |url= http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1198517262903&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull|publisher=Jerusalem Post|date= January 1, 2008|access-date=March 17, 2008 }}{{dead link|date=July 2020|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}

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