Maccabi Tel Aviv wins Israeli football championship

JERUSALEM, May 18 (Xinhua) -- Maccabi Tel Aviv, coached by Irish legend Robbie Keane, secured the Israeli Premier League title after a 3-0 home win over Hapoel Beer Sheva on Saturday night.

With two rounds left in the season, Tel Aviv has eight points more than second-placed Maccabi Haifa, who won the title in the previous three seasons.

In front of 25,000 fans at Bloomfield Stadium in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Beer