Eden Ben Basat joined the ranks of Maccabi Tel Aviv at the start of the 2014/15 season after signing from French club Toulouse FC. The 27 year-old striker began his career in his hometown of Kiryat Haim, playing in the youth division of Hapoel Haifa. He later "crossed the road" to municipal rivals Maccabi Haifa, where he took his first steps on the senior squad. After two and a half seasons, Ben Basat left Maccabi Haifa for successive loan spells at Maccabi Herzliya, Hapoel Haifa, Ironi Kiryat Shmona and Hapoel Tel Aviv. The best of these seasons was at Hapoel Haifa in 2007/8, where he scored 13 goals in 26 appearances.

In 2009 Ben Basat returned to Hapoel Haifa and recorded his top season to date, 27 goals in 59 appearances, a feat that paved the way for the start of a European career.  His first stop was with the then French Ligue 1 side Stade Brestois 29, where he scored a respectable four goals in his first season. But it was not until his second season in France's northwestern Brittany that the striker made his breakthrough, scoring nine goals in the first half of the 2012/13 season and drawing the attention of another club in the French top tier, Toulouse, who signed him in the January transfer window. In the season and a half he spent in south-west France Ben Basat scored seven goals before making his move to Maccabi Tel Aviv.

Ben Basat has also made an impressive start to his international career, scoring seven goals in his first twelve appearances for the Israeli national team. Six of them came during Israel's unsuccessful 2014 World Cup qualifying campaign, one in each game against Portugal, Northern Ireland and Luxembourg.