It was sometime back in the ‘90s, in Tel Aviv’s Yad Eliyahu sports arena, during a heated basketball derby between Maccabi and Hapoel Tel Aviv. Gur Shelef, if memory serves, was replaced by Derrick Sharp, and suddenly the announcer realized that all ten players on the court were foreign-born Americans—not a single native Israeli, certainly not from Tel Aviv—in a game supposed to embody the emotional...