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PODCAST: How an Israeli football referee became the world’s best

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Published: 9 June 2020

Last updated: 5 March 2024

In this episode: the first of a two-part feature-length story about how Abraham Klein survived politics, prejudice and even the Holocaust to become the best referee in the world

FULL STORY Abraham Klein, the 'master of the whistle' (Guardian)

Photo: Klein (third from left) tosses the coin at a match between England and Brazil in Mexico in 1970 (courtesy Abraham Klein)

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