Daniel Lifshitz was born in Sweden in 1988 and moved to Kibbutz Nir Oz as a seven year old. The goalkeeper was part of the Maccabi Haifa youth department between 2004-2007 before moving to Maccabi Netanya where he made his first team debut in November of 2007 against Bnei Sakhnin in the Toto Cup Tournament. Almost two years later he would make his first Israel League against Hapoel Haifa on August 22, 2009.

Between 2010-2015 the Lifshitz would play for a variety of teams across a number of levels in Israel including Hapoel Ashkelon, HaKoach Ramat Gan, Maccabi Herzliya and last season at Hapoel Raanana where he appeared in 26 matches. The ‘keeper came to Maccabi Tel Aviv on loan and joined the club on September 1, 2015.

Lifshitz’s debut was in a 2:1 league win over Maccabi Petah Tikva, a match that he was ejected from after touching the ball with his hand outside of the box. He then continued as the club’s first choice keeper in State Cup matches.

In June 2016, took the option on the keeper and he made 2 appearances during the 2016/17 season.

During the 2017/18 season, Lifshitz suffered a shoulder injury that caused him to miss most of the campaign. At the end of his contract the keeper announced his retirement.

Predrajg Rajkovic, Wearing the number 95 jersey at Maccabi, began his senior career in the 2011/12 when he made his senior debut at his boyhood club Jagodina. In 2013, Rajkovic was sold to Red Star where despite his young age was named as captain.
Rajkovic represented Serbia at U-16’s level before winning the European Championship with Serbia’s U-19’s. Two years later, Rajkovic led Serbia as captain to a victory in the U-20’s World Cup which took place in New Zealand where he also won the best goalkeeper award.

2015/16
Predrag Rajikovic joined Maccabi at the beginning of 2015/16 and took the place of Juan Pablo after the first Matchday of the season as the team also played in the Champions League Group Stages. The Serbian keeper became a mainstay in his debut season recording 20 clean sheets while also playing in all 6 Champions League Group Stage matches.

2016/17
Rajikovic made 56 appearances in the 2016/17 seasons which included 5 straight clean sheets where he did not give up a goal. He also played in all of the Europa League matches while featuring in the State Cup competition where he recorded a brilliant assist on a Vidar Kjartansson goal in a 3:0 win over Bnei Lod.

2017/18
The Serbian was again the first choice keeper and helped the Club advance to the group stages of the Europa League. Rajikovic started 36 league matches and made 56 appearances across all competitions while winning the Toto Cup.