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Gil Blumstein

Israeli footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ1523801 ↗
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Gil Blumstein (Hebrew: גיל בלומשטיין; born 20 May 1990) is an Israeli professional footballer who plays for Hapoel Rishon LeZion. Blumstein plays as a forward and as an attacking midfielder. He also holds a Polish passport.

Playing career

Blumstein signed his first professional contract with Maccabi Petah Tikva in July 2008, but he could not get minutes and he moved lately to Hapoel Be'er Sheva.

Blumstein made his debut for Hapoel Be'er Sheva in a league match against his former club, Maccabi Petah Tikva on 26 September 2009.

On 5 July 2010, Blumstein signed at Inverness. He made his debut against Celtic on 14 October 2010. He moved off the bench on 61st minute, but he injured and replaced 17 minutes later.

For the 2012–13 season He signed with Hapoel Ashkelon in Liga Leumit. He played at Ashkelon for two seasons.

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“Gil Blumstein” enters the record as israeli footballer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Blumstein, Israeli and footballer can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1990, 2008, 2009, 2010—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—1990-05-21, 1990-05-20—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Blumstein, Israeli and footballer.
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Why this record matters

“Gil Blumstein” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Blumstein, Israeli and footballer provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1523801. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1990, 2008, 2009 and 2010.

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This entry incorporates text from “Gil Blumstein” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.