This evening, before the start of the football match at the "Sami Ofer" stadium against Hapoel Ra'anana, the Maccabi Haifa Football Club held an impressive and honorable ceremony in honor of the Holocaust survivors of the "Yad Ezer Heber" association in Haifa, led by the association's founder and CEO, Mr. Shimon Sebag. The ceremony It was held on the occasion of "International Holocaust Day" 2019 which will take place at the end of January (27/1/2019).
With the pitch, 3 Holocaust survivors, residents of the association's "Holocaust Survivors' Hot House", Rita Kasimao-Brown, 84 years old, born in Poland, Motka Lieber, 87 years old, born in Poland, and Yehudit Rosenzweig, 88 years old, born in the Czech Republic, who lost Many of their family members are in the Auschwitz extermination camps. During the ceremony, the founder and CEO of the association, Mr. Shimon Sabag, presented a shield of honor to the Maccabi Haifa football club for the club's long-standing contribution to the association's Holocaust survivors for many years.
The course of the game, the events and the arrest of the rioting fan
Despite the almost absolute control of the greens, tonight's game at "Sami Ofer" did not rise to a high level and was even boring - the visitors from Ra'anana deployed a defensive formation that shut down and the Maccabi players almost failed to break through the bunker formation set up by the opponent's coach Menachem Koretzky, when they already had opportunities, the opponent's goalkeeper, Assaf Tzur, was there while demonstrating great ability.
The game against Ra'anana ended with the disappointing result - 0:0
This is Maccabi Haifa's first loss of points since the appointment of Marco Belbul as coach about a month ago. On Tuesday, the team will go to an away game in Sakhnin, as part of the State Cup, and the following Sunday, for an away game as part of the league against Maccabi Netanya.
Maccabi Haifa fans riot
In another section, the Maccabi Haifa club continues to fight the rioting fans and this evening the police arrested the team's fan, who threw a flare at the team's match in Ashdod 3 weeks ago.
The Police Spokesperson (Coast) told Lai Pa:
The police removed a minor from the Maccabi Haifa matches on suspicion of throwing a flare during a football match.
As part of the police's fight against violence in sports in general and on the football fields in particular, violence that manifests itself, among other things, in the throwing of flares that can cause burns of varying degrees. This evening, shortly before the start of the football match at the Sami Ofer Stadium, a 17-year-old minor resident of the Kiryat was arrested, after allegedly throwing a flare 3 weeks ago, during the team's match held in Ashdod against the local team.During the game, a number of flares were thrown from the stands of the Maccabi Haifa fans towards the field. One fan was arrested that evening and removed from the football fields for several months.
An investigation conducted by the Haifa police in cooperation with the Ashdod police station, led to the identification of the minor this evening as another suspect in the throwing of the flares and his detention for investigation. At the end of the investigation, as mentioned, the suspect was removed for a month from the Maccabi Haifa team games, with a commitment to report to the police station closest to his home during the games.
