This is a list of tennis players who have represented the Israel Davis Cup team in an official Davis Cup match. Israel have been taking part in the competition since 1949. [1]
Player | W-L (Total) | W-L (Singles) | W-L (Doubles) | Ties | Debut |
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Mordechai Apel | 0–2 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 1 | 1953 |
Haim Arlozorov | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 1 | 1980 |
David Asz | 0–2 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 2 | 1964 |
Arie Avidan-Weiss | 2–21 | 0–16 | 2–5 | 8 | 1949 |
Noam Behr | 6–7 | 2–4 | 4–3 | 9 | 1995 |
Gilad Bloom | 13–22 | 10–17 | 3–5 | 17 | 1986 |
Jacob Buntmann | 0–2 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 1 | 1950 |
Eleazar Davidman | 17–32 | 12–20 | 5–12 | 17 | 1956 |
Gabriel Dubitzky | 2–13 | 1–9 | 1–4 | 6 | 1953 |
Eyal Erlich | 9–7 | 5–3 | 4–4 | 10 | 1994 |
Jonathan Erlich | 16–6 | 1–0 | 15–6 | 22 | 2000 |
Yehuda Finkelkraut | 0–4 | 0–2 | 0–2 | 2 | 1949 |
Ian Froman | 1–4 | 0–0 | 1–4 | 5 | 1968 |
Shlomo Glickstein | 44–22 | 31–13 | 13–9 | 24 | 1977 |
Rafael Gornitsky | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 1 | 1949 |
Amir Hadad | 5–7 | 3–5 | 2–2 | 8 | 1998 |
Felix Kaplan | 1–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 1 | 1974 |
Steve Krulevitz | 4–5 | 4–3 | 0–2 | 4 | 1978 |
Ron Lehrner | 0–2 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 1 | 1973 |
Harel Levy | 23–20 | 20–16 | 3–4 | 21 | 1998 |
Amos Mansdorf | 22–25 | 18–17 | 4–8 | 20 | 1984 |
Lior Mor | 1–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 1 | 2000 |
Noam Okun | 17–15 | 16–14 | 1–1 | 18 | 1999 |
Shahar Perkiss | 18–13 | 6–8 | 12–5 | 21 | 1981 |
Ruben Porges | 1–1 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 2 | 1974 |
Andy Ram | 18–11 | 3–4 | 15–7 | 24 | 2000 |
Eyal Ran | 5–10 | 4–9 | 1–1 | 10 | 1992 |
David Schneider | 4–5 | 1–3 | 3–2 | 6 | 1981 |
Dudi Sela | 16–12 | 16–12 | 0–0 | 15 | 2005 |
Yehoshua Shalem | 5–16 | 5–15 | 0–1 | 10 | 1966 |
Oded Shay | 0–2 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 1 | 1965 |
Ilan Sher | 2–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2 | 1977 |
Josef Stabholz | 7–20 | 3–15 | 4–5 | 13 | 1966 |
Dekel Valtzer | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 1 | 2006 |
Raviv Weidenfeld | 1–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 1 | 1990 |
Amir Weintraub | 3–2 | 3–2 | 0–0 | 3 | 2011 |
Meir Wertheimer | 11–10 | 6–4 | 5–6 | 12 | 1972 |
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