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Eli Leventhal

Israeli footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 24, 2025
Entity authorityQ6839612 ↗
Source-derived summary

Elimeleh Leventhal (Hebrew: אלי לוונטל; born 18 March 1953) is an Israeli former footballer. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1976 Summer Olympics.

Editorial summary

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

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1953, 1976—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1953-03-18. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Leventhal, Israeli and footballer.
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Why this record matters

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

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 24, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q6839612. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1953 and 1976.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Eli Leventhal” 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.