This Paper describes the struggle for equality by women basketball players in Israel during the eighties and early nineties based on newspaper accounts and the writings of the strugglers` leaders. It emphasizes the clash between the feminist discourse of the basketball players, which was similar to but more radical than the spirit of some recently passed laws, and between the conservative views of the basketball officials. The gap between the two views, in addition to the radical activities adopted by the feminists, played a key role in achieving a number of significant changes in basketball regulations. The description of these events also challenges the conventional wisdom in historical feminist research in Israel. Whereas this research emphasizes the restrained character of the feminist struggle during the eighties, the episode of the women basketball players suggests that at least in some domains a radical struggle for equality was in fact taking place.