The Yad Eliyahu Arena (Hebrew: היכל הספורט יד אליהו), commercially Nokia Arena (Hebrew: היכל נוקיה), is a sports and entertainment arena located in southern Tel Aviv, Israel. The arena is home to the Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball club, a member of the Maccabi Tel Aviv sports club. The facility is the largest indoor sports arena in Israel, and it hosts the Israeli Super League final four, the State Cup final four and most of the Israeli national basketball team home games. In other sports, it has hosted a Davis Cup World Group match between Israel and France in 1989, and the Davis Cup quarterfinals between Israel and Russia in July 2009.
The arena is owned by the municipality of Tel Aviv, and is managed by Sports Palaces Ltd., a company also fully owned by the municipality (which also manages Bloomfield Stadium).
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