Miki Berkovich

Miki Berkovich was born in 1954 in Kfar Saba

Moshe "Miki" Berkovich was born in Kfar Saba, the only child of immigrants from Romania. His family later moved to Kiryat Tivon and then to Tel Aviv. At 11 he joined the Maccabi Tel Aviv youth team.

He joined the Maccabi Tel Aviv senior team in 1971. In 1975 he played college basketball at UNLV in the United States and returned to Maccabi after one season.

With Maccabi he won the European Champions Cup in 1977 and 1981, scoring the winning basket in the 1981 final. He also won 16 league titles and 13 national cups with the club. In 1979 he led Israel to silver at the EuroBasket in Turin and was named its MVP, and a court case kept him at Maccabi after an NBA offer.

In 1988 he moved to Maccabi Rishon LeZion, and later played for Hapoel Jerusalem and Hapoel Tel Aviv before retiring in 1995. He then worked in insurance, managed A.S. Ramat HaSharon and spent a season as manager of Ironi Nahariya. In August 2026 it was revealed that he has dementia and lives in a care facility.