Written and researched by Greg Stock.
| The Israeli club side Hapoel Tel-Aviv made a three game, one week tour of Australia in August/September1965 playing matches three representative matches. Having finished runners up in the Israeli First Division during the 1964/5 season, they proved to be great disappointments, with 2 losses and a draw from their three matches. The Combined Melbourne side was entirely composed of players from South Melbourne Hellas and Hakoah. | ||||
| Played: Wednesday September 1 1965 | Venue: South Melbourne Cricket Ground, South Melbourne | |||
| Combined Melbourne XI Walker, George Keith, Mantrakes, John Margarites, Roussis, Waugh, Alec Purdie, Gerry Chaldi, Ernie Ackerley, Rowley, Jimmy Adam. Goals: Unavailable |
2 | - | 0 | Hapoel Tel-Aviv (ISR) Elkayam, Joshua Pinchi, Abraham Levi, David Primo, Amatzia Leukovitch, Gideon Tish, Chaim Nurielli, Danny Bursuk, Daniel Danielli, Shani Ben-Baruch, Wecheskil Ghazum. |
| Referee: Roger Lamb (Vic) Attendance: 3,500 | ||||