The 23 year-old defender Omri Ben Harush joined the ranks of the Maccabi Netanya youth system at age eight and made his maiden appearance for the senior squad before the start of the 2009/10 season in a League ("Toto") Cup match against Beitar Jerusalem. In his first season he scored two goals and made just 16 appearances, but the following season he upped that total to 35 and firmly established himself as a mainstay in the Netanya squad. Of the equally noteworthy 41 appearances he made in the 2011/12 season, his most memorable one will be for scoring the last goal at the mythological "Kufsa" Stadium in Netanya, an injury time winner against Bnei Sakhnin.

Last April he registered his 100th appearance for his old club. He also made 21 appearances for Israel's Under-21s, including all of the games in the 2013 European Under-21 Championships held here in Israel in June. He has also played for Israel's senior squad, making his maiden appearance in Israel's defeat to Greece in September 2011. He arrived at Maccabi Tel Aviv at the start of the 2013/14 season just after the club had begun their European campaign. His maiden appearance for Maccabi was in the third round of the Champions League qualifiers when he came off the bench in the away leg against FC Basel.

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