The Family of Former Basketball Player Mickey Berkowitz Revealed that He Suffers From Dementia.
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Journalist and presenter Avri Gilad addressed the great pain surrounding the news that basketball legend Mickey Berkowitz is suffering from dementia on 103fm radio today (Tuesday). At first, he sighed and said: "I watched this film with great pain, because I know that when a person deteriorates, many times the family after his passing remembers his difficult years." He added: "How do I know this? Because my father also had Alzheimer's, and the m…
This evening (Monday), in a chilling film by Niv Raskin that was shown on Channel 12, the Berkowitz family revealed that Mickey suffers from dementia. Mickey Berkowitz, 72, is considered Israel's greatest basketball player and athlete. Berkowitz, who played as a shooting guard, is most identified with Maccabi Tel Aviv, which he led, among other things, to a historic win in the European Cup in 1977 and another win in 1981. Berkowitz also led the …
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