Dan Biton says he is undergoing what he has described as complex medical procedures and is doing everything he can to return to football. The Hapoel Be'er Sheva midfielder has disclosed no diagnosis, no treatment schedule and no target date for resuming competition. Those omissions are not gaps for anyone to fill in — they mark the limit of what has actually been made public.
In a message to supporters, Biton said he would share more when the time was right and that he hoped to see them again soon. The statement came after speculation about his condition in the days before Be'er Sheva's Super Cup meeting with Maccabi Tel Aviv. It confirms only that his absence is being managed medically, with no basis for judging how serious it is or how long it might last.
Head coach Ran Kozuch has taken the same line. He said the matter is between Biton and his doctors, that the player's health comes before any sporting timetable, and that medical confidentiality should be respected. It is also the appropriate competitive frame: no selection prediction can be considered reliable until the club or the player communicates a change in status.
Be'er Sheva's official squad page still lists the 30-year-old attacking midfielder, and the Israel Football Association continues to maintain his current playing record. His importance to the team is not in question — he supplies set-piece quality, shooting and passes between the lines — but that footballing value does not justify turning a deliberately limited health update into a speculative injury report.
For now, the club is approaching its immediate fixtures with no public return date attached to Biton's name. Any tactical adjustment is a matter for the available squad; any medical conclusion belongs to the player and his clinicians. Until one of them says more, the accurate account remains narrow but meaningful — Biton is in a medical process, working towards a return, and has asked for space while that work continues.
