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Born | Jaffa, Palestine | July 11, 1944|||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Israeli | |||||||||||||||||
Listed height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | |||||||||||||||||
Position | Guard | |||||||||||||||||
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Haim Starkman (חיים שטרקמן; born in Jaffa, Palestine, July 11, 1944) is an Israeli former basketball player. He played the guard position. [1] He played in the Israeli Basketball Premier League, and for the Israeli national basketball team.
Starkman is 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) tall. [2]
He played for 12 years in the Israeli Basketball Premier League for Maccabi Ramat Gan and Maccabi Tel Aviv (for whom Starkman was captain). [3] [4] He later coached in the league, for Maccabi Tel Aviv and Maccabi Ramat Gan. [5] [6] [4] [7] He is a member of the Maccabi Tel Aviv Hall of Fame. [8] [2]
Starkman played on the Israeli national basketball team in the 1964 European Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Men, 1966 Asian Games Basketball Championship (winning a gold medal), 1967 European Championship for Men, 1968 European Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Men, 1969 European Championship for Men, 1970 Asian Games Basketball Championship (winning a silver medal), and 1971 European Championship for Men,. [9] [10] [11] [4]
After his basketball career, Starkman worked in the insurance industry as an insurance agent. [4] [12] As of 1999, his brother Ike (Yitzhak) Starkman owned 45% of a Nasdaq public company that owned a California restaurant chain Jerry's Famous Deli, with 11 branches in and around Los Angeles, specializing in Jewish delicacies. [13]
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