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Topic: Arkady Gaydamak

February 13, 2013
2:36 am

A hooded Beitar Jerusalem fan seen outside the Teddy stadium in Jerusalem ahead of a match on Sunday, February 10 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Police arrest 7 for Beitar clubhouse torching

Suspects belong to a group of hardcore fans of the Jerusalem soccer club known as La Familia

By Ron Friedman

February 10, 2013
8:54 pm

Beitar fans at Teddy Stadium Sunday night. (Screenshot: Sport 1)

70 fans kicked out but no major incidents at Beitar match

Amid tight security, and to lots of booing, Chechen Muslim Gabriel Kadiev takes the field for Jerusalem team stained by racism

February 10, 2013
9:15 am

Fans of Beitar Jerusalem protest the decision to sign two Chechen Muslim players during training session in Jerusalem, on February 1, 2013. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Amid tight security, Beitar to play Arab team in Jerusalem

‘We need to take this criminal activity, even terrorism, against the team seriously,’ says Jerusalem mayor following clubhouse torching

By Gabe Fisher and Times of Israel staff

February 7, 2013
10:03 pm

Beitar Jerusalem fans at Teddy Stadium, on Tuesday, Jan. 29 (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Beitar fans charged over racist chants as cops vow to crack down

Police announce operation to penetrate an extremist cell within the Jerusalem soccer club’s faithful

By Philip Podolsky

February 6, 2013
6:19 pm

Fans of the Beitar Jerusalem soccer team hold up a sign reading 'Beitar forever pure,' on Saturday, Jan 26 (photo credit: Flash90)

AG pledges to eradicate racism from sports fields

Two Chechen soccer players at the center of recent Beitar Jerusalem controversy to be treated to visits from moms

By Adiv Sterman

January 31, 2013
1:46 am

Beitar Jerusalem head coach Eli Cohen, center, flanked by Gabriel Kadiev, left, and Zaur Sadayev at a press conference last month (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Beitar Jerusalem signs first Muslim players

In wake of racist display by some fans, Mayor Nir Barkat says signing is ‘an ethical statement that goes out from Jerusalem to the world’

By Ron Friedman

January 30, 2013
3:09 am

Buoyed by score, daunted by fines, Beitar faithful play nice

Jerusalem team’s soccer fans defy the grim expectations and refrain from racist rhetoric as the players club Maccabi Umm al-Fahm on the pitch

By Mitch Ginsburg

January 29, 2013
6:11 am

Beitar’s racism has a long, inglorious history

Viciously protesting the planned signing of Muslim players was only the latest in a tradition of hate-filled displays by Jerusalem soccer fans

By Aaron Kalman

January 27, 2013
4:22 am

Knesset speaker Rivlin slams Beitar soccer fans’ anti-Muslim racism

Three Beitar supporters arrested after calling out slogans against two Chechens slated to become team’s first Muslim players

By Joshua Davidovich

December 24, 2012
12:20 pm

The maternity ward at Bikur Holim Hospital in Jerusalem (photo credit: Flash90)

Jerusalem’s Bikur Holim to close as independent hospital

Centrally located institution to merge with Shaare Zedek Medical Center; layoffs expected

By Gabe Fisher

November 5, 2012
12:53 am

Newborn babies are attended by nurses at Bikur Holim hospital in Jerusalem (photo credit: Flash90)

Jerusalem’s oldest hospital goes on strike

Bikur Holim, known for its maternity ward, stops accepting expectant mothers while staff picket outside

By Asher Zeiger and Times of Israel staff

July 2, 2012
11:55 am

Oligarch diamonds gone rough?