Shimcha Finkelstein

Shimcha Finkelstein (1917–1987), was a male Polish and Israeli international table tennis player.

[1] He won a bronze medal at the 1936 World Table Tennis Championships in the Swaythling Cup (men's team event) with Alojzy Ehrlich and Samuel Schieff for Poland.

He was of Jewish origin and before the war switched allegiance to Israel and won the first ever Israeli championship beating Mordecai Finberg in the final.

[4] He left Poland in May 1937 via Romania to Palestine.

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