{{short description|Israeli basketball player (born 1960)}} {{Infobox basketball biography | name = Eyal Yaffe<br>אייל יפה | image = | height_ft = 6 | height_in = 3 | weight_lb = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1960|1|15}} | birth_place = | nationality = Israeli | high_school = | college = Canisius (1984–1986) | draft_year = | career_start = | career_end = | career_number = | career_position = Guard | years1 = | team1 = | highlights = * FIBA European Champions Cup champion (1977) }}
'''Eyal Yaffe''' ({{Langx|he|אייל יפה}}; born January 15, 1960) is an Israeli former basketball player.<ref name="auto4">{{Cite web|url=http://www.maccabi.co.il/Player.asp?PlayerUID=18&lang=en|title=Maccabi Tel Aviv BasketBall Club | Former Player | Eyal Yaffe|website=Maccabi Tel Aviv Basketball Club}}</ref> He played the guard position, and competed in the Israeli Basketball Premier League.<ref name="auto4"/>
==Biography== Yaffe is from Tel Aviv, Israel, and is Jewish.<ref name="auto1">{{Cite web|url=https://newspapers.library.in.gov/?a=d&d=JPOST19841128-01.1.2&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------|title= The Sports Scene|date= November 28, 1984|website=Jewish Post}}</ref> His father is Moshe Yaffe of Ramat Efal, Israel.<ref name="auto3">{{Cite web|url=https://buffalonews.com/news/mrs-yaffe/article_af5e58e0-daf2-5c85-a249-11c1eb1e6d7e.html|title=MRS. YAFFE|website=The Buffalo News|date=October 19, 1991}}</ref> He is {{convert|6|ft|3|in|cm|abbr=on}} tall.<ref name="auto5">{{Cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/players/eyal-yaffe-1.html|title=Eyal Yaffe College Stats|website=College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com}}</ref> He served three years in the Israel Defense Forces.<ref name="auto6">{{Cite web|url=https://newspapers.library.in.gov/?a=d&d=JPOST19821126-01.1.9&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------|title= The Basketball Player|date= November 26, 1982 |website=Jewish Post}}</ref> He graduated from Canisius College with a master of business administration degree.<ref name="auto3"/>
In 1991 he married Sarina Gullo in Buffalo, New York.<ref name="auto3"/> He became a financial consultant/broker, and has worked for Merrill Lynch Consumer Markets in Westlake Village, California, since 1990.<ref name="auto3"/><ref name="auto7">{{Cite web|url=https://brokercheck.finra.org/individual/summary/1937169|title=Eyal Yaffe; CRD#: 1937169; Broker Regulated by FINRA; Investment Adviser |website=brokercheck.finra.org}}</ref>
==Basketball career== He played for Israel in the 1977 FIBA European Championship for Cadets (Under-16).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/player/p/pid/105955/sid/2301/tid/306/_/1977_European_Championship_for_Cadets/index.html|title=Yaffe Eyal profile, European Championship for Cadets 1977|website=FIBA.COM}}{{dead link|date=April 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>
Yaffe played for Maccabi Tel Aviv in the Israeli Basketball Premier League.<ref name="auto4"/> The highlight was his playing for the Maccabi Tel Aviv team that won the 1976–77 FIBA European Champions Cup.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://newspapers.library.in.gov/cgi-bin/indiana?a=d&d=JPOST19830119-01.1.18&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------|title=The Sports Post|date= January 19, 1983 |website=Jewish Post}}</ref> In the semifinals, Maccabi Tel Aviv beat the Russian Red Army team 91 to 79. In 1982 Yaffe played amateur basketball in West Germany.<ref name="auto"/>
Yaffe attended Canisius College in Buffalo, New York. Because he had played basketball in Europe, and given his age (22 years old), he was required to forfeit one year of eligibility.<ref name="auto"/> The Canisius coaching staff therefore redshirted Yaffe in 1982–83, intending to have him begin his career the next fall.<ref name="auto"/> However, he missed the 1983–84 season with an injury.<ref name="auto1"/><ref name="auto2">[https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/217138241.pdf "Black Bears Can't Hold on, Lost to Canisius, 58-52,"] ''The Daily Maine Campus'', February 11, 1986</ref> He then played basketball for the Canisius Golden Griffins in 1984–86.<ref name="auto1"/><ref name="auto2"/><ref name="auto5"/> He was given the 1985 Canisius College Cage Club Unsung Hero Award.<ref>[https://admin.xosn.com/pdf4/132272.pdf?DB_OEM_ID=20500 "Canisius Sports Hall of Fame"]{{Dead link|date=March 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
==See also== *Sports in Israel
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{{Maccabi Tel Aviv BC 1976-77 Euroleague champions}}
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