Menachem Ashkenazi

Menachem Ashkenazi (Hebrew: מנחם אשכנזי) (6 August 1934 – 13 November 2000) was an Israeli international football referee, born in Bulgaria, active during the 1960s and 1970s.

Born in 1934 in a Jewish Sephardic family in Bulgaria, in 1936 he emigrated with his parents to Mandatory Palestine.

Since his childhood he played soccer and distinguished himself at 16 as a player in the youth football team of the club Hapoel Petah Tikva.

Ashkenazi had a long career as a FIFA official, supervising international matches as a referee or linesman during the period from 1961[1] to 1986.

He was in charge in one of the most memorable matches of that World Cup, Portugal's 5–3 win over North Korea in the quarterfinal.