Maccabi Tel Aviv Chairman Shimon Mizrahi eulogized David Federman, one of the team's owners. In a conversation with the ynet studio, he said that "this is a companion on the road over the last 50 years." Mizrahi added: "David was a businessman with very, very developed instincts, basketball was at the forefront of his concerns, he contributed greatly also to our activities in the context of the EuroLeague. To lose a partner and companion on the road over decades, this is not a random encounter, I would say. We achieved what we achieved largely thanks to him and we walked together, as I said earlier, over fifty years."