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Steven Klein joined Haaretz in 2004 and was appointed sports editor in 2008. An avid sports fan, he lived the motto "those who can't play, coach," when he became a little league coach in Jerusalem after making Aliyah in the early 1990s and eventually served three years as youth baseball commissioner.

A former teacher of Zionism and the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict and now a doctoral candidate in conflict management and negotiation at Bar-Ilan University , he also contributes occasionally to the opinion pages of Haaretz English Edition.

Splitting his childhood between Minnesota and North Carolina , Klein is a graduate of Duke University and received his Master's degree from Hebrew University in Jerusalem . He lives in Modi'in with his wife, Rivka, and two children.

Latest Articles by Steven Klein

Hapoel Rishon playing Beitar Jerusalem in April, 2012.

Rishon reaches Super League Final Four

Home team Rishon got off to a slow start against Ashkelon but exploded in the second half to win 77-63.

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Hapoel Rishon requires double overtime to tame Tel Aviv

Finals end up being Rishon derby.

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Maccabi Ashdod’s team celebarating their historic championship on Thursday night.

Basketball (W) / Premier League / Maccabi Ashdod wins first crown in OT thriller

Kolodny's clutch plays win her MVP.

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Basketball / National League Semifinal, Game / Nes Tziona finds its 'missing piece'

Bilal Benn puts the Hapoel New Tziona in reach of Super League.

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Basketball (W) / Playoffs / Ashdod forces Game 5 with road win over Ramle 0 comments

Basketball (W) / Ramle survives late collapse

Elitzur Ramle survived one of the uglier - and stranger - games it has played against Maccabi Ashdod this year, when it escaped with a 60-58 win at Maccabi Ashdod.

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Ashdod’s Tamera Young, left, challenging Ramle’s Tanisha Wright for the ball April 19, 2012.

Basketball / Women's final / Ashdod hangs on for Game 1 win 0 comments

Basketball (W ) / Semifinals / Ashdod sweeps aside Habikaa into finals

Ashdod will face the winner of the Ramat Hasharon-Elitzur Ramle series, which Ramle leads 2-1.

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Elitzur Ramle’s Tanisha Wright, left, dribbling around Ramat Hasharon’s Jia Perkins, April 8, 2012.

Basketball (W ) / Semis / Wright paces Ramle to another road win

Tanisha Wright carried Ramle on her shoulders, scoring 33 points - a personal best in her two seasons with Ramle - 17 of them in the fourth quarter

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Basketball / Euroleague /No redemption for Maccabi in Athens

PAO eliminates Tel Aviv with 86-85 win.

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Basketball (W ) / Semifinals / Ashdod, Ramle claim Game 1 wins

Maccabi Ashdod crushes Habikaa 81-56 in Game 1 of their best-of-five semifinal series.

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Basketball (W ) / Premier League / Habikaa nabs fourth spot in playoffs

Host Habikaa overcame a disastrous second quarter, in which it was outscored by Ashdod 25-7, including a 24-3 run to close out the period.

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Blu jumping to score against Panathinaikos, March 23, 2012.

Basketball / Euroleague quarterfinals / What a difference two days make

Just 48 hours after being humiliated by the European champions, Maccabi Tel Aviv evened its Euroleague semifinal series with Panathinaikos by pulling out a 94-92 overtime victory.

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Football / IFL / Pioneers destroy Lions' perfect season to make finals

The Pioneers will face the winner of Saturday's other semifinal, between the Haifa Underdogs and the Tel Aviv Sabres in Israel Bowl V.

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Women's Basketball / State Cup / Ramat Hasharon, Maccabi Ashdod squeeze into final

State Cup holder Elitzur Ramle fell 69-64 to Ramat Hasharon in overtime, after recovering from an 11-point, fourth-quarter deficit.

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Soccer / Premier League / Kiryat Shmona draws near to first title

Kiryat Shmona plays Hapoel Tel Aviv to a 2-2 draw.

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Soccer / Premier League / Hapoel TA upsets Maccabi Haifa

Hapoel's players looked like they wanted to prove that they would not be crushed by the punishment meted out by the Israel Football Association for fan and player unruliness during last week's derby.

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Ron Lewis - Ilan Assayag - February 2012

Basketball / Super League / Holon's Lewis sinks Ashdod

Buzzer-beater completes 34-point night for American.

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Devin Smith - Nir Keidar - February 2012

Basketball / Euroleague / Maccabi TA rallies past Zalgiris

Trailing from the opening minute at home, Maccabi used a 7-0 run to take its first lead of the game in the fourth quarter and survived two late comeback attempts by Kaunas.

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Basketball / Super League / Hapoel Jerusalem opens door for Maccabi to step in

Yogev Ohayon, the former Hapoel star, was ironically the hero for Maccabi, scoring 20 points and dishing out eight assists as he engineered the visitors’ comeback.

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Maccabi Tel Aviv - Nir Keidar - February 2012

Basketball / Maccabi catches, surpasses Cantu

Tel Aviv holds tiebreaker over Italians.

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Maccabi Tel Aviv - Sharon Bukov - February 2012

Volleyball / Maccabi Tel Aviv rallies past Olympiacos to quarterfinal

No Israeli club has gone so far in European competition.

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Basketball (W ) / Interview / 'It's not easy returning to a stadium of 500 people'

Shay Doron talks about the Elitzur Ramle's letdown since being bumped from the women's Eurocup.

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Basketball / Super League / Hap. Holon takes Gilboa down a peg

Roth, Hapoel's 28-year-old point guard, dished out 15 assists to go with 16 points as he kept his team in control of the game throughout.

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teaching cricket to Palestinians - Efrat Saar - 27012012

Cricket / Local association bowls over Europeans with award-winning peace initiative

Initiative involves boys and girls from four separate playing centers in Israel and the Palestinian Authority being introduced to cricket for the first time, bringing communities together.

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Haaretz headlines

Palestinian protesters throwing stones at an Israeli bulldozer.

Settlers sling accusations at IDF as stone-throwing increases in West Bank

By Amos Harel, Chaim Levinson | 03:01 AM

Kerry’s gamble: A resounding first victory or political humiliation

By Barak Ravid | 10:25 PM

Habayit Hayehudi MK Uri Ariel, center, meeting with representatives of ultra-Orthodox factions

IDF Draft reform needs to include Arabs, not just ultra-Orthodox, Habayit Hayehudi demands

By Jonathan Lis | 01:41 AM

The separation fence east of the West Bank settlement of Alfei Menashe.

Development agencies slam EU's inaction over Israel's Area C policies

By Amira Hass | 02:12 AM