Pini Gershon

Pinhas "Pini" Gershon (Hebrew: פנחס "פיני" גרשון‎, born 13 November 1951), is an Israeli professional basketball coach, who won three European championships as a head coach for Maccabi Tel Aviv. He was also the coach of the Bulgarian national team.

He was named Euroleague Coach of the Year in 2005. In 2008, he was named one of the 50 Greatest Euroleague Contributors.

Biography

Personal details

He grew up and studied in the city Tel Aviv. He experienced a rough childhood, as his biological father abandoned the family at the age of one year and left him with his mother, in poverty conditions.

As a basketball player

In his youth he was a basketball player. He played for the team "Maccabi south Tel Aviv", which was a sister team of Maccabi Tel Aviv, and was one of the stars in the cadets team. He played a number of years also in the adult group of Maccabi south Tel Aviv, but his career as a basketball player ended at the age of 24 as a result of an injury.

As a coach

After the short career as a basketball player, he began to coach in different Israeli teams, among them, Maccabi Rishon LeZion, Hapoel Galil Elyon, Hapoel Gan Shmuel-Menashe, Hapoel Tel Aviv and Hapoel Jerusalem, as well as the assistant coach for the Israel national basketball team.

Gershon

According to the Torah, Gershon (Hebrew: גֵּרְשׁוֹן‎ Gêrəšōn) was the eldest of the sons of Levi, and the patriarchal founder of the Gershonites, one of the four main divisions among the Levites in biblical times. The Gershonites were charged with the care of the outer tabernacle including components such as the tent and its covering, screens, doors, and hangings. Biblical scholars regard the name as being essentially the same as "Gershom" (Hebrew: גֵּרְשֹׁם, Modern Gerəššom, Tiberian Gēršōm), which appears to mean "a sojourner there" (גר שם), and it is Gershom rather than Gershon who is sometimes listed in the Book of Chronicles as a founder of one of the principal Levite factions. The Torah names Gershon's sons as Libni and Shimei.

Textual scholars attribute the genealogy to the Book of Generations, a document originating from a religiopolitical group similar to that behind the Priestly source, and at a similar date. According to biblical scholars, the Torah's genealogy for Levi's descendants is actually an aetiological myth reflecting the fact that there were four different groups among the Levites — the Gershonites, the Kohathites, the Merarites, and the Aaronids. In these scholars' view, Levite was originally just a job title, deriving from the Minaean word lawi'u, meaning "priest", rather than the name of a tribe.

Gershon (disambiguation)

Gershon can refer to any of the following:

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Other:

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