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Yoel Alroy

1930 – 2023

Association football player, lawyer and mayor of Netanya

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Lived 1930 – 2023 (aged 92–93). Yoel Alroy was an Israeli association football player, politician, lawyer and athlete.

Yoel Alroy (; 1930 – 21 September 2023) was an Israeli footballer and politician. He played as a forward for Maccabi Netanya and after his retirement from football served as the mayor of Netanya from 1983 to 1993.

Early life Yoel Alroy was born in 1930 in Petah Tikva, but moved to Netanya at the age of three weeks where his parents ran an orchard, which was destroyed during the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine, leaving Yoel's family nearly bankrupt. He studied in the Biyalik school, where he concluded his studies in 1947. While in high school, Alroy served in the Haganah, and joined the Maccabi Netanya, beginning his career in sports.

Legal practice and sports career In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Yoel studied in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, earning a degree in law in 1954. He subsequently opened a small law firm in Netanya, and married Pnina, his wife. As a lawyer, Yoel participated in the Kastner trial. He also remained within the IDF, and fought in the Suez Crisis, the Six-Day War, and the War of Attrition.

Alroy later served as chairman of the Association for the Elderly in Netanya, also known as Hadar.

Death Yoel Alroy died on 21 September 2023, at the age of 93.

Honours Maccabi Netanya Netanya Cup: 1953 Israel State Cup runner-up: 1954

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1930, Petah Tikva
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Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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Who was Yoel Alroy?

association football player, lawyer and mayor of Netanya

When was Yoel Alroy born?

Yoel Alroy was born in 1930 in Petah Tikva.

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Yoel Alroy died on 21 September 2023.

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Yoel Alroy was an association football player, politician, lawyer and athlete.

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Yoel Alroy was Israeli.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Yoel Alroy

· Wikidata: Q8054299

· DBpedia: Yoel Alroy

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