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A Hapoel Tel Aviv fan holds up a controversial t-shirt reading "Against the scum," with the logos of the Israel Police, the banned Kach party, and Maccabi Tel Aviv, at the Bloomfield Stadium in Tel Aviv, December 20, 2025. (Danny Maron/Flash90)
December 20, 2025, 8:48 pm
High Court freezes police ban on soccer fans wearing shirts calling cops ‘scum’
Judges issue temporary order as they review case; police had barred from games shirts reading ‘Against the scum,’ with logos of police, banned far-right party and rival team
By ToI Staff
Fans of Hapoel Tel Aviv leave Bloomfield Stadium as they boycott a game due to supporters being barred from attending after wearing t-shirts describing the police, the outlawed extremist Kach party, and the Maccabi soccer club as "scum," on December 6, 2025. (Screenshot, X; used used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
December 6, 2025, 10:50 pm
Hapoel Tel Aviv soccer fans barred from game for wearing shirts calling cops ‘scum’
Ultras Hapoel says shirts were response to police banning fans from bringing flags, banners; force says it has grounds to bar entry if there is risk of ‘harm to life and property’
By ToI Staff
Police stand guard after the Israeli Premier League match between Hapoel Tel Aviv and Maccabi Tel Aviv was canceled at Bloomfield Stadium in Tel Aviv, on October 19, 2025. (Flash90)
October 28, 2025, 10:15 pm
Anger as police video equates Hapoel Tel Aviv fans to Palestinian rioters
Soccer club threatens to boycott cup final after force publishes clip of fans, East Jerusalem protesters aiming fireworks at officers and asks to ‘spot the differences’
By ToI Staff
Police stand guard after the Israeli Premier League match between Hapoel Tel Aviv and Maccabi Tel Aviv was canceled at Bloomfield Stadium in Tel Aviv, on October 19, 2025. (Flash90)
October 19, 2025, 11:50 pm
Police cancel Tel Aviv soccer derby after fans riot; 13 arrested, 3 cops injured
Some 30,000 spectators forced to evacuate after flares and smoke bombs are thrown onto the field; local police chief says some clashes were premeditated, 13-year-old old hurt
By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff
Members of the Hapoel Tel Aviv basketball team celebrate their EuroCup tournament victory, April 11, 2025, after defeating Spanish squad Gran Canaria in the finals. (YouTube screenshot)
April 12, 2025, 3:55 am
Hapoel Tel Aviv defeats Gran Canaria to win its first ever EuroCup Basketball
‘In my view we defeated Hamas,’ says Israeli squad’s owner after 2 Spanish teams beaten on way to title; Hapoel will join its crosstown rival Maccabi in next year’s EuroLeague
By ToI Staff
Former hostage Hagar Brodutch during an interview (CTV screen grab; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
February 28, 2025, 7:46 pm
Ex-hostage recalls her final moments with Tsahi Idan: ‘They told him he’d return with us’
Hagar Brodutch says on her last day in Gaza, in November 2023, their captors ‘brutally pulled him away from us and took him — to this today I don’t know where’
By ToI Staff
Hapoel Tel Aviv fans, friends and family members gather to pay respects to slain Israeli hostage Tsahi Idan during his funeral service at the Bloomfield Stadium in Tel Aviv, February 28, 2025. (Avshalom Sasson / Flash90)
February 28, 2025, 5:07 pm
‘Sorry we didn’t bring you back alive’: Hostage Tsahi Idan buried beside murdered daughter
18-year-old Maayan was killed in front of her father on Oct. 7, he was slain in Gaza; family eulogizes him, slams government at memorial held at his favorite team’s home field
By ToI Staff and JTA
Police remove a young fan, wearing a T-shirt with a slogan against National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, from a basketball game in Jerusalem, October 13, 2024. (Screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
October 14, 2024, 10:42 am
Police briefly detain teen wearing anti-Ben Gvir T-shirt at Jerusalem basketball game
Fans claim officers searched for 17-year-old because of his ‘FCK BNGVR’ T-shirt, though police quoted as saying he was removed from stadium for ‘provocative’ chants
By ToI Staff
Ofek Kimhi (Credit: Courtesy).
May 7, 2024, 4:42 pm
Ofek Kimhi, 23: Life of the party was die-hard Hapoel TA fan
Murdered by Hamas at the Supernova music festival on October 7
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Hapoel Tel Aviv against Maccabi Tel Aviv at the final of the State Cup in at the Bloomfield Stadium in Tel Aviv, June 2, 2021. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)
September 29, 2023, 12:54 am
Hapoel Tel Aviv forfeits soccer game to protest security measures raised after brawl
Following chaos at match earlier this week, fans told to arrive three hours before kick off and those without IDs turned away, infuriating team’s owner
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Hapoel Tel Aviv against Maccabi Tel Aviv at the final of the State Cup in at the Bloomfield Stadium in Tel Aviv, June 2, 2021. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)
September 26, 2023, 11:49 pm
At least 120 arrested as Tel Aviv soccer fans clash with cops ahead of rivalry match
Chaos breaks out during security checks outside Bloomfield Stadium, which turned up smoke grenades, flares and other banned objects, police say
By ToI Staff
Hapoel Tel Aviv's Jordan Mcrae rises up for a dunk against Maccabi Tel Aviv in the Drive-In Arena on June 11, 2023 (Yuval Daniel/Hapoel Tel Aviv BC)
June 12, 2023, 1:01 pm
Hapoel Tel Aviv ties basketball finals 1-1 in rowdy, historic beatdown of Maccabi
After a 45-minute delay due to fireworks set off by the crowd, Hapoel deals Maccabi its biggest loss ever against an Israeli team, taking the series to a third decisive game
By Iddo Schejter
Fire engulfing Hapoel Tel Aviv's training base in south Tel Aviv, March 5, 2023. (Screenshot/Twitter; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
March 5, 2023, 10:45 am
Arson suspected as fire rips through Hapoel Tel Aviv training base hours before game
Soccer team says its south Tel Aviv HQ suffered ‘enormous damage,’ with fears building may collapse; club’s request to postpone key game against Beitar Jerusalem rejected
By Ash Obel
Hapoel Tel Aviv basketball is now known as Hapoel Vegan Friendly Tel Aviv, with the vegan organization as the main sponsor for the team (Courtesy Hapoel Tel Aviv)
August 16, 2022, 5:02 pm
Hapoel Tel Aviv basketball team goes vegan with new sponsor
With a cry for kelp and a plea for peas, activist organization Vegan Friendly scores with latest collaboration
By Jessica Steinberg
Tottenham Hotspur's English striker Harry Kane, 2nd from left, vies for the ball with Roma's Brazilian defender Roger, center, during a friendly match between England's Tottenham Hotspurs and Italy's AS Roma at the Sammy Ofer Stadium in Haifa, July 30, 2022. (Jack Guez/AFP)
August 16, 2022, 2:04 pm
Daily Briefing Aug. 16: Tweet leads to UN dismissal; UK soccer adopts survivor story
US correspondent Jacob Magid discusses reaction to a post on rocket fire, plus Kushner’s book, as environmental reporter Sue Surkes reveals her father-in-law’s Holocaust legacy
By ToI Staff
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