Natan Panz

Natan Panz (; 28 September 1917 – 28 April 1948) was a Jewish football player from Mandatory Palestine, who played for Maccabi Tel Aviv, Beitar Tel Aviv, and Mandatory Palestine national football team for only one match. He was also an Irgun member and was killed during the 1947–48 civil war in Mandatory Palestine in battle with the British Army.

Biography Panz was born in Vitebsk, then in the Russian Republic shortly before the October Revolution. In 1921 the family left Soviet Russia to Eretz Israel and settled in Tel Aviv. Panz studied in Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium and Nordia Gymnasium before the American University of Beirut. He was employed as a clerk in the Tel Aviv municipality.

In 1947, after Beitar Tel Aviv was forced to disband by the Mandatory Government and was reformed as Nordia Tel Aviv, Panz refused to appear in the newly reformed team and transferred back to Maccabi Tel Aviv. Panz was commanding a machine-gun on an armored vehicle in Menashiya and was killed, along with two of his friends, when a British armored vehicle fired on him.

Honours league championship (3): With Maccabi Tel Aviv: 1935–36, 1937 With Beitar Tel Aviv: 1944–45 (joint-championship) Israel State Cup (2): 1940, 1942