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Doron Shefa

Israeli basketball player (born 1961)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 28, 2025
Entity authorityQ617402 ↗
Source-derived summary

Doron Shefa (Hebrew: דורון שפע; born October 3, 1961) is an Israeli former basketball player. He played the guard and forward positions. He was named to the Israeli Basketball Premier League Quintet in 1991.

Biography

Shefa is 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) tall.

He played for Hapoel Jerusalem, Hapoel Gilboa/Afula, Maccabi Haifa, and Hapoel Holon. Shefa was named to the Israeli Basketball Premier League Quintet in 1991. He is 11th all-time in career points in the Israel Basketball Premier League, with 5,715.

Shefa competed for the Israel men's national basketball team in the 1986 FIBA World Championship for Men, 1987 FIBA European Championship for Men, and 1992 European Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Men.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Doron Shefa” as israeli basketball player (born 1961). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1961, 1991, 1986, 1987—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—1961-10-13, 1961-10-03—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. The account is most persuasive where Doron, Shefa and Israeli can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as israeli basketball player (born 1961). Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 28, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q617402. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1961, 1991, 1986 and 1987.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Doron Shefa” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.