The Most Famous
REFEREES from Israel
This page contains a list of the greatest Israeli Referees. The pantheon dataset contains 107 Referees, 1 of which were born in Israel. This makes Israel the birth place of the 47th most number of Referees behind Mali and New Zealand.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Israeli Referees of all time. This list of famous Israeli Referees is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Orel Grinfeld (1981 - )
With an HPI of 34.79, Orel Grinfeld is the most famous Israeli Referee. His biography has been translated into 19 different languages on wikipedia.
Orel Grinfeld (Hebrew: אוראל גרינפלד; born 21 August 1981) is an Israeli football referee. He has been on the FIFA list of international referees since 2012, and took charge of his first international matches in March that year, officiating in two Group 1 matches in the 2012 UEFA European Under-17 Championship elite round. He has since gone on to referee senior matches, making his debut in the UEFA Europa League group stage in 2015–16. He made his UEFA Champions League debut in a 2018–19 group stage game between Real Madrid and Viktoria Plzeň. In 2019–20 season, he became the first Israeli referee to officiate a game in the UEFA Champions League knockout stage, in a last 16 game between Lazio and Bayern Munich.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as referees born between 1981 and 1981. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living referees include Orel Grinfeld. As of April 2022, 1 new referees have been added to Pantheon including Orel Grinfeld.
