Managerial Career
His managerial career started during his last playing season when he acted as an assistant to Dror Kashtan. After retiring he was promoted to manager replacing Kashtan. After leading his childhood club to a sixth place league finish and cup final, he left for Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv but resigned after they were relegated to the Liga Leumit. After seven matches in charge of Maccabi Petah Tikva in 2001, he was fired and rejoined Bnei Yehuda, the same club he led to relegation the year before. This time he was able to guide them to a dramatic return to the Israeli Premier League.
The next season he was fortunate to keep the team from being relegated again. Calls came from fans of Beitar Jerusalem to bring Ohana back to the club and that is essentially what happened before the 2003/04 season. There he would stay for three seasons before stepping down as manager after the club was sold to Arcadi Gaydamak. He would make a return to management with Hapoel Kfar Saba and save them from relegation, for what he received the title Coach of the Year. In the end of 2007-08 Israeli Premier League Ohana has been relegated with Hapoel Kfar Saba to Liga Leumit although they won the last game of the season.
On June 18, 2008 Ohana was selected to be Israel U19 new manager.
When the coach of the Israel national football team quit in 2010, Ohana was made the caretaker of the team. With Ohana on the lines, Israel beat Romania 2–0 in a friendly match. That game started rumours Ohana will be the new head coach of the team, but Ohana said in an interview his time is yet to come.
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