David Arkin, at The Blogs

Jun 8, 2023, 8:21 AM

The Musings of Musikanth: In conversation with the Tel Aviv Heat Head Coach

Kevin Musikanth, Tel Aviv Heat and Israel Rugby Head Coach

The write-up of this interview got delayed due to several family and work crises that conspired against my journalistic good intentions. After initially meeting at Sun Café on Moshav Batzra, I followed up again in early June, for the...

Dec 22, 2022, 5:17 AM

Tel Aviv Heat star in the Tempest at Tbilisi

Over 45 years ago, on 7 April 1977, all the soldiers serving on the small base in Sharm El-Sheikh, numbering approximately 50, filed into ten or eleven army jeeps and started travelling in convoy on the slow, dusty track...

Dec 14, 2022, 3:59 PM

Tel Aviv Heat conquer Lusitanos to make maiden RE Super Cup Final

The Tel Aviv Heat will play in Rugby Europe’s Super Cup final in Tbilisi on 17 December. They earned the right to play for the trophy against the defending Georgian Champions, Black Lion. They followed up their match-winning friendly...

Nov 10, 2022, 12:46 AM

TA Heat Rugby hit their straps and put 50 passed the Romanian Wolves

This was the final pool game of the Rugby Europe Super Cup. With the Black Lion winning the day before, the result of this game on 30.10.2022 would have no bearings on the final log. TAH were already through...

Oct 27, 2022, 6:10 AM

Tel Aviv Heat win through to semi-finals of Rugby Europe Super Cup

Tel Aviv Heat Rugby team put another feather in their cap with their most recent game, a solid 25-8 home victory over RC Batumi. And with this win, came qualification for the semi-finals of RE Super Cup (even with...

Oct 20, 2022, 6:50 AM

Black Lion wilt under Tel Aviv Heat

The author and Boaz Korpel, doing ''freestyle'' rugby commentary for Sport 5. Tel Aviv Heat vs. Black Lion, 16 October 2022

Tel Aviv Heat Rugby team created another piece of history last Sunday, 16 October. They won their first home game on Israeli soil. Well, it was only their second ever game within Israeli borders, and it was a gutsy...

Oct 9, 2022, 5:53 AM

Tel Aviv Heat get stuck in the mud at Batumi (but keep 2nd place)

“The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.” (poetry credits to e.e. cummings) Well, at least it was at Batumi Rugby Club, on the Georgian coast of the Black Sea, the day before Rosh Hashanah. The Tel Aviv Heat lost...

Sep 22, 2022, 9:16 AM

Tel Aviv Heat in ‘winning draw’ against Super Cup Rugby Champs, Black Lion

Tel Aviv Heat rugby team came agonisingly close to defeating the Georgian team, Black Lion (the inaugural Rugby Europe’s Super Cup winners from last season). A missed kick at the death resulted in the spoils being shared 25-25 in...

Sep 14, 2022, 7:23 PM

Tel Aviv Heat tame Romania Wolves in Rugby Europe Super Cup Opener

Romanian Wolves vs Tel Aviv Heat | RESC Highlights In case you’ve been living under a rock, or perhaps simply not a rugby fan, you may have missed the opening game of the Tel Aviv Heat’s 2nd season This...

Jul 14, 2022, 6:46 AM

The Rugby History Boys – powered by MyHeritage! The highlights of Tel Aviv Heat’s first year

With the Maccabiah Rugby tourney starting this week, it will be a welcome opportunity to see some of the players of the Tel Aviv Heat, Israel’s first professional rugby team, return to the pitch. It’s heating up (pardon the...

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David is a proud supporter of the Tel Aviv Heat Rugby team, Israel's first professional rugby franchise. He may have been a rugby scribe in a former life. In his current avatar, he is a project manager at Hanson Israel, a subsidiary of the Heidelberg Materials Group