Jeff Rabkin

Jeff Rabkin, born in 1958 in South Africa, is a former Israeli international lawn bowler. He started playing at the age of 18 and, after emigrating to Israel in 1985, won the Israeli national title seven times and the masters sixteen times. In February 2000 he reached a career-high ranking of world number one. He won three singles medals at consecutive World Bowls Championships: a bronze in 1992 at Worthing, a silver in 1996 at Adelaide and another bronze in 2000 at Johannesburg. In 1993 he took the pairs title at the Hong Kong International Bowls Classic alongside Cecil Bransky, and he was runner-up to Darren Burnett of Scotland at the 2006 World Singles Champion of Champions in Christchurch, New Zealand.