Noam Dovrat

Noam Shimon Dovrat (; born July 16, 2002) is an Israeli professional basketball player for Ironi Ness Ziona of the Israeli Basketball Premier League. He played one season of college basketball for the Miami Hurricanes of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). Dovrat has previously played for Maccabi Rishon LeZion and Hapoel Jerusalem, both of Israeli Basketball Premier League . He primarily plays the point guard position. He was named the 2020 Israeli Basketball Premier League Discovery of the Year.

Early life Dovrat grew up in Rishon LeZion. At the age of five, he joined the Maccabi Rishon LeZion basketball school, where he played across all youth age groups. During the 2017–18 season, he won both the national championship and the State Cup with the club's Under-16 team. In the 2018–19 season, he was named the Youth League's Southern District Player of the Year by the Israeli basketball website Safsal. Concurrently, Dovrat played for the basketball team of the Gymnasia Realia high school in Rishon LeZion. Dovrat was diagnosed as a gifted child and, at age 14, joined the Bar-Ilan University program for talented youth in mathematics. He also began studying for a bachelor's degree at Tel Aviv University, but withdrew shortly after.

National Team Career In 2017, Dovrat was named to the Israeli Under-16 national team roster but missed the European Championship due to back pain. In 2018, he participated in the FIBA U16 European Championship held in Serbia, leading his team in scoring with an average of 14 points per game, as Israel finished in tenth place. In 2019, Dovrat won the gold medal with the Under-18 national team at the FIBA U18 European Championship Division B in Romania. He led the tournament in scoring, averaging 16 points and 4.5 assists per game, and was named the tournament's MVP. In 2022, he competed with the Under-20 national team at the FIBA U20 European Championship in Montenegro, where he averaged 18 points per game and was selected to the All-Tournament Team.

Professional Career

Maccabi Rishon LeZion In February 2019, Dovrat was promoted to the senior team of Maccabi Rishon LeZion. Through the remainder of the 2018–19 regular season, he appeared in eight games, seeing limited playing time. He reached the Final Four final with the team, where they were defeated by Maccabi Tel Aviv, though he played sparingly during the playoffs as well. In the summer of 2019, Dovrat signed a four-year contract extension with Rishon LeZion, with the agreement that he would play exclusively for the senior team.

During the 2019–20 season, Dovrat received significantly more playing time in both the Israeli Premier League and the EuroCup, occasionally entering the starting lineup. He completed the season averaging 5.5 points in approximately 19 minutes per game, and again reached the Final Four final, where Rishon LeZion once more fell to Maccabi Tel Aviv. At the conclusion of the season, he was named the Israeli Basketball Premier League Discovery of the Year.

In the 2020–21 season, Dovrat averaged 10.6 points in about 27 minutes per game, starting in most matches. However, he sustained an injury toward the end of the season and did not return to play, missing the State Cup final in which Rishon LeZion lost to Maccabi Tel Aviv. Despite the injury, he was named the Premier League's Most Improved Player at the end of the season. Dovrat returned to the court at the start of the 2021–22 season but struggled to replicate his pre-injury form, averaging around 5 points per game.

Hapoel Jerusalem and Later Career In December 2021, Dovrat transferred to Hapoel Jerusalem for an estimated buyout fee of 1.3 million NIS, signing a three-and-a-half-year contract that included release clauses for the EuroLeague and the NBA. He made his debut for Hapoel Jerusalem on 1 January 2022, in a game against Maccabi Tel Aviv. In November 2022, during a Basketball Champions League game, Dovrat suffered a severe knee injury that sidelined him for a year and a half. In May 2024, shortly after recovering from the injury, he won the Israeli State Cup with Hapoel Jerusalem.

On 18 April 2025, ahead of the playoffs, Dovrat was traded to Maccabi Ironi Ramat Gan in exchange for Roy Huber. On 29 July 2025, Dovrat committed to play college basketball for the University of Miami.