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{{short description|Israeli professional basketball coach|bot=PearBOT 5}}
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'''Efraim "Effi" Birnbaum''' ({{Langx|he|אפרים "אפי" בירנבאום}}; born 11 June 1954), is an Israeli professional [[basketball coach]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.eurobasket.com/coach.asp?Cntry=Israel&CoachID=3023|title=Effi Birnbaum}}</ref>

==Coaching career==
He was the [[Israeli Basketball Super League|Israeli Super League]]'s [[Israeli Basketball Premier League Coach of the Year|Coach of the Year]], in 2005. Birnbaum was the [[head coach|head]] [[basketball coach|coach]] of [[Maccabi Tel Aviv B.C.|Maccabi Tel Aviv]], for the beginning of the 2008-09 season, until he was terminated on November 24, 2008. He was the head coach of Maccabi Rishon Lezion from 2011-2012.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://basketball.realgm.com/staff/Effi-Birnbaum/Summary/28098|title=Effi Birnbaum - RealGM|website=basketball.realgm.com}}</ref> He was the head coach of Bnei Herzelia from 2013-2014.<ref name="auto"/>

==Clubs coached==

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|- align=left
!bgcolor=silver |Season(s)
!bgcolor=silver |Club
!bgcolor=silver |
|- align=left bgcolor=#D0E7FF
|1981/1982
||[[Maccabi Petah Tikva (Basketball)|Maccabi Petah Tikva]]
|- align=left bgcolor=#F5FAFF
|1982-83,1983–84
||[[Maccabi Ramat Gan (basketball)|Maccabi Ramat Gan]] (Assistant)
|- align=left bgcolor=#D0E7FF
|1984-85
||[[Hapoel Ramat Gan B.C.|Hapoel Ramat Gan]] (Assistant)
|- align=left bgcolor=#F5FAFF
|1985-86
||[[Maccabi Ramat Gan (basketball)|Maccabi Ramat Gan]] (Assistant)
|- align=left bgcolor=#D0E7FF
|1986-87,1987–88,1988–89,1989–90
||[[Maccabi Ramat Gan (basketball)|Maccabi Ramat Gan]]
|- align=left bgcolor=#F5FAFF
|1990-91,1991–1992
||[[Hapoel Holon]]
|- align=left bgcolor=#D0E7FF
|1992/93
||[[Maccabi Ramat Gan (basketball)|Maccabi Ramat Gan]]
|- align=left bgcolor=#F5FAFF
|1993-94,1994–95
||[[Bnei Herzliya]]
|- align=left bgcolor=#D0E7FF
|1994-97
||[[Israel national basketball team|Israeli National Team]] (Assistant)
|- align=left bgcolor=#F5FAFF
|1995-96
||[[Hapoel Eilat B.C.|Hapoel Eilat]]
|- align=left bgcolor=#D0E7FF
|1996-97,1997–98
||[[Maccabi Ramat Gan (basketball)|Maccabi Ramat Gan]]
|- align=left bgcolor=#F5FAFF
|1998-99,1999–2000
||[[Hapoel Jerusalem B.C.|Hapoel Jerusalem]]
|- align=left bgcolor=#D0E7FF
|2000-01,2001–02
||[[Maccabi Haifa B.C.|Maccabi Haifa]]
|- align=left bgcolor=#F5FAFF
|2002-03
||[[Bnei HaSharon]]
|- align=left bgcolor=#D0E7FF
|2003-04
||[[Maccabi Givat Shmuel]]
|- align=left bgcolor=#F5FAFF
|2004-05,2005–06
||[[Hapoel Tel Aviv B.C.|Hapoel Tel Aviv]]
|- align=left bgcolor=#D0E7FF
|2006-07,2007–08
||[[Bnei HaSharon]]
|- align=left bgcolor=#F5FAFF
|2008-09
||[[Maccabi Tel Aviv B.C.|Maccabi Tel Aviv]]
|- align=left bgcolor=#D0E7FF
|2009-12
||[[Maccabi Rishon LeZion (basketball)|Maccabi Rishon LeZion]] Bnei Herzliya
|- align=left bgcolor=#F5FAFF
|2013-14
||[[Bnei Herzliya]]
|- align=left bgcolor=#D0E7FF
|2016-2017
|| [[Hapoel Tel Aviv B.C.|Hapoel Tel Aviv]] (manager)
|}

==References==
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[[Category:1954 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Hapoel Jerusalem B.C. coaches]]
[[Category:Israeli Jews]]
[[Category:Israeli basketball coaches]]
[[Category:Maccabi Tel Aviv B.C. coaches]]