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{{short description|Israeli basketball player and coach}}
{{Infobox basketball biography
| name            = Oded Kattash<br>עודד קטש
| image_size      =
| image           = 2022-12-22 ALBA Berlin gegen Maccabi Tel Aviv B.C. (EuroLeague 2022-23) by Sandro Halank–058.jpg
| caption         = Kattash in 2022
| position        = [[Head coach]]
| height_m        = 1.94
| weight_kg       = 84
| league          = [[EuroLeague]]
| team            = Maccabi Tel Aviv
| birth_date      = {{Birth date and age|1974|10|10|mf=y}}
| birth_place     = [[Giv'atayim]], Israel
| draft_year      = 1996
| career_start    = 1991
| career_end      = 2001
| career_position = [[Point guard]]
| career_number   =
| coach_start     = 2004
| coach_end       = 
| years1          = 1991–1992
| team1           = Maccabi Darom  
| years2          = 1992–1993
| team2           = [[Ironi Ramat Gan|Maccabi Ramat Gan]] 
| years3          = 1994–1995
| team3           = [[Hapoel Galil Elyon B.C.|Hapoel Galil Elyon]] 
| years4          = 1995–1999
| team4           = [[Maccabi Tel Aviv B.C.|Maccabi Tel Aviv]] 
| years5          = 1999–2001
| team5           = [[Panathinaikos B.C.|Panathinaikos]] 
| cyears1         = 2004–2007
| cteam1          = [[Hapoel Galil Elyon B.C.|Hapoel Galil Elyon]]
| cyears2         = 2007–2008
| cteam2          = [[Maccabi Tel Aviv B.C.|Maccabi Tel Aviv]]
| cyears3         = 2008–2010
| cteam3          = [[Hapoel Gilboa Galil]]
| cyears4         = 2010–2013
| cteam4          = [[Israel men's national basketball team|Israel]] (assistant)
| cyears5         = 2010–2011
| cteam5          = [[Hapoel Jerusalem B.C.|Hapoel Jerusalem]]
| cyears6         = 2012–2014
| cteam6          = [[Hapoel Eilat B.C.|Hapoel Eilat]]
| cyears7         = 2014–2015
| cteam7          = [[Hapoel Tel Aviv B.C.|Hapoel Tel Aviv]]
| cyears8         = 2015–2017
| cteam8          = Hapoel Eilat
| cyears9         = 2017
| cteam9          = [[Israel men's national under-20 basketball team|Israel U-20]]
| cyears10        = 2017–2021
| cteam10         = [[Israel  men's national basketball team|Israel]]
| cyears11        = 2018–2021
| cteam11         = Hapoel Jerusalem
| cyears12        = 2021
| cteam12         = [[Panathinaikos B.C.|Panathinaikos]]
| cyears13        = 2022–present
| cteam13         = Maccabi Tel Aviv
| highlights      = 
'''As player''':
* [[FIBA EuroBasket Top Scorer]] (1997)
* [[EuroLeague]] champion ([[2000 EuroLeague Final Four|2000]])
* 2× [[FIBA EuroStar]] (1997, 1999)
* 2× [[Greek Basket League|Greek League]] champion (2000, 2001)
* [[HEBA Greek All Star Game|Greek League All-Star]] (1999)
* 4× [[Israeli Basketball Super League|Israeli League]] champion (1996–1999)
* [[Israeli Basketball Premier League MVP]] (1998)
* 2× [[Israeli Basketball State Cup|Israeli Cup]] winner (1998, 1999)
'''As head coach''':
* 3 x [[Israeli Basketball Super League|Israeli League]] champion (2010, 2023, 2024)
* 2× [[Israeli Basketball State Cup|Israeli Cup]] winner ([[2018–19 Israeli Basketball State Cup|2019]], [[2019–20 Israeli Basketball State Cup|2020]])
* [[Greek Basketball Cup|Greek Cup]] winner ([[2020–21 Greek Basketball Cup|2021]])
* [[Greek Basket League|Greek League]] champion ([[2020–21 Greek Basket League|2021]])
* [[Israeli Basketball League Cup|Israeli League Cup]] winner ([[2019 Israeli Basketball League Cup|2019]])
* [[Israeli Basketball Premier League Coach of the Year|Israeli League Coach of the Year]] (2007)
| medal_templates = 
{{MedalSport|Men's [[Basketball]]}}
{{MedalSport|Head Coach for {{bk|ISR}} }}
{{MedalCompetition|[[FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship|FIBA Europe Under-20]]}}
{{MedalSilver| [[2017 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship|2017 Greece]] | [[Israel men's national under-20 basketball team|National Team]]}}
}}
'''Oded Kattash''' ({{langx|he|עודד קטש}}; born October 10, 1974) is an Israeli professional [[basketball]] [[Coach (basketball)|coach]] for [[Maccabi Tel Aviv B.C.| Maccabi Tel Aviv]] and former player. During his playing career, at a height of {{cvt|194|cm|ftin|frac=2}}, he played at the [[point guard]] position. He was the 1998 [[Israeli Basketball Premier League MVP]]. As a player, he won the [[EuroLeague]] title in the [[2000 EuroLeague Final Four|1999–2000 season]], while playing with [[Panathinaikos B.C.|Panathinaikos]].

==Early career==
When Kattash was 9 years old, he joined the junior youth department of [[Maccabi Tel Aviv (basketball)|Maccabi Tel Aviv]]. He then played with Maccabi Darom, which was Maccabi Tel Aviv's [[farm team]] at the time.

==Professional career==
Kattash played with [[Maccabi Ramat Gan BC|Maccabi Ramat Gan]], and [[Hapoel Galil Elyon]], before returning in 1995, to [[Maccabi Tel Aviv BC|Maccabi Tel Aviv]], to join their senior men's team. With Macabbi's senior team, he won 4 [[Israeli Basketball Super League|Israeli League]] championships and 2 [[Israeli Basketball State Cup|Israeli State Cups]]. He was the 1998 [[Israeli Basketball Premier League MVP]]. After [[EuroBasket Top Scorer|leading the 1997 EuroBasket in scoring]], he subsequently agreed to play with the [[New York Knicks]], but he never actually played in the [[NBA]], because of the [[1998–99 NBA season]] [[Lockout (industry)|lockout]], that started on July 1, 1998.

Eventually, he signed a three-year contract with [[Panathinaikos BC|Panathinaikos]]. In the [[2000 EuroLeague Final Four|2000 EuroLeague Finals]] game, he scored 17 points, against his former team Maccabi Tel Aviv, to win the EuroLeague championship with Panathinaikos. His career ended prematurely a few months later, when he suffered a serious knee injury.

==National team career==
Kattash played at the [[EuroBasket 1997|1997 edition]] of the [[EuroBasket]], with the senior [[Israel men's national basketball team|Israeli national team]], scoring 22 points per game during the tournament.

==Coaching career==
[[Image:Katash122.JPG|250px|right|thumb|Oded Kattash coaching (2003)]]
After Kattash retired from playing basketball, he took up [[basketball coach]]ing, and he first coached [[Hapoel Galil Elyon]]. He was the [[head coach]] of [[Maccabi Tel Aviv (basketball)|Macabbi Tel Aviv]], from summer of 2007, until January 1, 2008, when he resigned.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.euroleague.net/news/i/21529/maccabi-bench-kattash-resigns-sherf-in |title= Maccabi bench: Kattash resigns, Sherf in|last1= Arbel, Tel Aviv|first1= Yarone |date= 1 January 2008 |website= euroleague.net |publisher= Euroleague|access-date= 20 November 2015}}</ref>

Shortly after, he returned to Galil Elyon, and helped the team stay in the Israeli first division. In 2009, he remained with Galil, leading them against the odds, to the [[Israeli Basketball Super League|Israeli League]] Final Four, and coming within a last shot of knocking out Maccabi Tel Aviv in the semifinals. In 2010, he won the Israeli League championship with Galil, after a win over Maccabi Tel Aviv in the league finals.

In June 2010, Kattash was appointed as [[Hapoel Jerusalem BC|Hapoel Jerusalem]]'s head coach, signing a three-year contract.<ref>{{cite news |last= Last |first=Jeremy |date=15 June 2010|title= Local Hoops: Hapoel J'lem signs Katash for 3-year stint|url= http://www.jpost.com/Home/Article.aspx?id=178473|newspaper=[[Jerusalem Post]] |location=Jerusalem |access-date= 20 November 2015}}</ref>

On June 21, 2012, Kattash was appointed the head coach of [[Hapoel Eilat B.C.|Hapoel Eilat]], as the team was re-included into the Israeli Premier League, for the 2012-13 season.<ref>{{cite news |last= Gellar|first= Raphael|title=Israeli Basketball Preview 2012-2013 |url=http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/israeli-basketball-preview-2012-2013/ |newspaper=The Times of Israel |access-date=20 November 2015|date=11 October 2012 }}</ref>

On June 27, 2014, at the end of his contract, Kattash signed a three-year contract with [[Hapoel Tel Aviv B.C.|Hapoel Tel Aviv]]. On November 3, 2015, he was dismissed, after only four games, after three consecutive losses. He subsequently returned to Hapoel Eilat. However, On July 18, 2017, [[Hapoel Eilat B.C.|Hapoel Eilat]] and Kattash decided to part ways. During that summer, Kattash led the [[Israel men's national under-20 basketball team|Israel men's under-20 national team]] to a [[silver medal]] at the [[2017 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship]].

On October 10, 2017, [[Israel Basketball Association|The Basketball Federation of Israel]], named Kattash the new head coach of the senior [[Israeli national basketball team|Israeli national team]], for the next four years.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://basket.co.il/news.asp?id=16066|title=עודד קטש מונה למאמן נבחרת ישראל|date=October 10, 2017|work=basket.co.il|access-date=October 10, 2017|language=he}}</ref>

On February 22, 2018, Kattash returned for a second stint to Hapoel Jerusalem, signing a one-and-a-half-year deal.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://sportando.basketball/en/europe/israel/265655/hapoel-jerusalem-name-oded-katash-head-coach.html|title=Hapoel Jerusalem name Oded Katash head coach|date=February 22, 2018|work=Sportando.com|access-date=February 22, 2018}}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://basket.co.il/news.asp?id=17605|title=שינוי על הקווים: קטש חוזר לבירה|date=February 22, 2018|work=basket.co.il|access-date=February 22, 2018|language=he}}</ref>

On January 14, 2021, Kattash signed a one-and-a-half-year deal with [[Panathinaikos B.C.|Panathinaikos]] of the [[Greek Basket League]] and the [[EuroLeague]].<ref>[https://sportando.basketball/en/panathinaikos-announces-oded-katash/ Panathinaikos announces Oded Katash]</ref>

==Coaching record==
{{Euroleague coach statistics legend}}

===EuroLeague===
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|- 
| align="left"|[[Maccabi Tel Aviv B.C.|Maccabi Tel Aviv]]
| align="left"|[[2007–08 Euroleague|2007–08]]
| 9 || 6 || 3 || {{Winning percentage|6|3}} || align="center"|Resigned
|- 
| align="left"|[[Panathinaikos B.C.|Panathinaikos]]
| align="left"|[[2020–21 EuroLeague|2020–21]]
| 16 || 5 || 11 || {{Winning percentage|5|11}} || align="center"|Eliminated in the regular season
|- 
|-class="sortbottom"
| align="center" colspan=2|'''Career'''||25||11||14||{{Winning percentage|11|14}}||
{{s-end}}

==Personal life==
*Kattash is of Algerian descent.
*Kattash is known to have different-coloured irises, a condition known as [[heterochromia]] of the [[Iris (anatomy)|iris]]es (heterochromia iridis).
*Kattash is a good friend with the former player and current coach [[Dror Cohen]]. They have a long history of playing and coaching together.<ref>[https://www.israelhayom.co.il/article/854081 "אנחנו לא נחותים משום נבחרת באירופה"] Yaakov Meir ([[Israel Hayom]]), 22 February 2021. Accessed 5 July 2021.{{in lang|he}}</ref>

==See also==

*[[List of Jews in sports#Basketball|List of select Jewish basketball players]]

== References ==
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==External links==
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20180515183748/http://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/p/rpp//q/David%20Oded%20KATTACHE/pid/10728/_//players.html FIBA Profile]
*[http://www.fibaeurope.com/compID_qMRZdYCZI6EoANOrUf9le2.season_2001.roundID_228.playerID_10728.teamID_306.html FIBA Europe Profile]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20050105023934/http://www.24sec.net/article.asp?index=81 Article about Kattash]
* [http://www.jewishsports.com/profiles/katash.htm Kattash and Knicks]
*[http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/06/05/sports/ME-SPT-BKB-Maccabi-Tel-Aviv-Coach.php News piece] about coaching Maccabi
*{{cite news |author= Sinai, Allon|title=Local Hoops: Kattash steps down as Maccabi TA coach |url= http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1198517262903&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull|publisher=Jerusalem Post|date= January 1, 2008|access-date=March 17, 2008 }}{{dead link|date=July 2020|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}

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