{"id":28591,"date":"2009-03-02T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/dor-fischer-attacked-sunday-night-now-in-surgery-at-ichilov-hospital\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T08:27:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T05:27:13","slug":"dor-fischer-attacked-sunday-night-now-in-surgery-at-ichilov-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/dor-fischer-attacked-sunday-night-now-in-surgery-at-ichilov-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"D\u2019or Fischer Attacked Sunday Night, Now in Surgery at Ichilov Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><SPAN style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HE\">By Amy Samin<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/><o:p><\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P> <P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><SPAN style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HE\"><o:p><BR><\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P> <P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><SPAN style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HE\">D\u2019or Fischer, starting center for Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv, was attacked Sunday night outside of a club in Tel Aviv by someone who threw a glass bottle at him.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\"><BR><\/SPAN>Fischer was injured in the forehead and cheek and is presently in surgery at <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st1:place w:st=\"on\"><st1:PlaceName w:st=\"on\">Ichilov<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st=\"on\">Hospital<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> in Tel Aviv.<o:p><\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P> <P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><SPAN style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HE\"><o:p><BR><\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P> <P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><SPAN style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HE\">With Fischer at the hospital are his father, who is currently visiting him in <st1:country-region w:st=\"on\"><st1:place w:st=\"on\">Israel<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>, Maccabi\u2019s team manager Gur Shelef, and the basketball club\u2019s doctor, Dr. Nathan Serbu.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\"><BR><\/SPAN><st1:place w:st=\"on\"><st1:PlaceName w:st=\"on\">Ichilov<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st=\"on\">Hospital<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> spokesperson, Aviva Shemer, said, \u201cHe is in the operating room. He has very serious trauma to his face which involves the facial nerve.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\"><BR><\/SPAN>He will be undergoing microsurgery to repair the nerve.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\"><BR><\/SPAN>The cut goes very deep, and we very much hope there will not be permanent damage.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\"><BR><\/SPAN>It\u2019s currently considered a moderate injury, and we hope we will be able to repair as much of the nerve as possible.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\"><BR><\/SPAN>He is being operated on by two plastic surgeons.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\"><BR><\/SPAN>The surgery will likely last for several hours.\u201d<o:p><\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P> <P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><SPAN style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HE\"><o:p><BR><\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P> <P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><SPAN style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HE\">Maccabi\u2019s spokesperson, <B>Nitzan Ferraro<\/B> said, \u201cFischer was attacked outside of a club Sunday night, was injured in his face &#8211; apparently by a sharp object, and is being cared for at <st1:place w:st=\"on\"><st1:PlaceName w:st=\"on\">Ichilov<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st=\"on\">Hospital<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\"><BR><\/SPAN>With Fischer are the team\u2019s doctor, Dr. Serbu and team manager Gur Shelef.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\"><BR><\/SPAN>We are focusing right now on his care and healing; later we will learn the details.\u201d <o:p><\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P> <P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><SPAN style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HE\"><o:p><BR><\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P> <P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><SPAN style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HE\"><o:p><BR><\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P> <P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><SPAN style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HE\"><A href=\"mailto:samintranslations@yahoo.com\">samintranslations@yahoo.com<\/A> <o:p><\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv\u2019s center was attacked Sunday night outside of a club, was injured in the forehead and cheek, and is currently in surgery at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-28591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":494976,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28591\/revisions\/494976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28591"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=28591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}