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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
Palestine's Ataa Jaber (R) and Indonesia's Asnawi Mangkualam Bahar fight for the ball during the international friendly football match between Indonesia and Palestine at Gelora Bung Tomo stadium in Surabaya on June 14, 2023. (Photo by Juni Kriswanto / AFP)
September 19, 2023, 5:58 pm
Israeli captain playing for the Palestinians: ‘Can’t separate politics from sports’
Former Maccabi Haifa and Israeli U-21 player Ataa Jaber says he made the choice to switch national teams after clashes in Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood
By Gianluca Pacchiani
Chelsea's Russian owner Roman Abramovich applauds his players after they defeated Arsenal 6-0, in an English Premier League soccer match at Stamford Bridge stadium in London, on March 22, 2014. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
June 1, 2018, 7:32 pm
Envoy hopes billionaire Abramovich will invest in ‘pitiful’ Israeli soccer
Israel’s ambassador to Russia welcomes the Jewish tycoon who made aliyah this week in wake of dispute over UK visa
By AFP and ToI Staff
Illustrative photo of Israeli soccer fans (Flash 90)
September 9, 2015, 7:57 pm
Israeli soccer to go ahead this weekend, after all
Israeli Football Association reinstates matches after attorney general says antiquated labor law need not be enforced
By ToI Staff
Israel's national American football team plays against NCAA Division III team Maranatha Baptist Bible College at the Baptist Village sport complex near Petah Tikva in 2012. (Ariel Schalit/AP)
August 31, 2015, 5:03 am
Israel’s football team wins first international game
Victory over Spain in Madrid helps advance national team toward 2016 tournament
By JTA
New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft gives Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a signed football during a meeting with former players at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on June 22, 2015. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)
June 30, 2015, 2:23 am
American-style football gains ground in Israel
Hall of Famers visit Jewish state with New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, get in touch with their roots
By Ben Sales
A match between the Palestinian and Jordanian national soccer teams in 2008 (photo credit: Michal Fattal/Flash90)
February 5, 2015, 8:20 pm
In first, Palestinian-Israeli soccer cooperation
After repeated Israeli complaints to FIFA, Palestinians authorize transfer of two players to Israeli leagues
By ToI Staff
Elroy Yadi, who burst onto the field during the Hapoel Tel Aviv-Macabi Tel Aviv Derby game, at the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court on November 4, 2014. (photo credit: Flash90)
January 21, 2015, 8:05 pm
Hapoel Tel Aviv soccer fan charged with assault
Man confesses to attacking Maccabi TA star Eran Zahavi; case transferred to Haifa court, where he faces additional charges
By ToI Staff
FIFA President Sepp Blatter sits between Prince Ali of Jordan (left), and Jibril Rajoub (right), who heads the Palestinian Football Federation, at the presidential headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on May 26, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Abbas Momani)
May 28, 2014, 3:46 am
FIFA president says he won’t sanction Israel
After meetings with Israeli and Palestinian leaders, Sepp Blatter maintains he has no grounds to take action against the IFA
By AFP
Avi Rosenblum playing football for Albany High School. (photo credit: Ned Purdom/ Courtesy of Rom Rosenblum)
November 9, 2013, 4:23 am
Israeli football’s new import is a 6’2″ black Jew
20-year-old Avi Rosenblum to play with the Ramat Hasharon Hammers; parents hope he meets a ‘nice Israeli girl’
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Illustrative photo of soccer players (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90 )
April 27, 2012, 7:20 pm
Israeli soccer copes with wave of violence
‘If there is violence, there will not be football,’ Netanyahu told his Cabinet this week
By Jeremy Last
Israel Football Association chairman Avi Luzon. (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)
April 20, 2012, 10:18 pm
Top 2 Israeli soccer leagues suspended due to match violence
Football Association chief cancels Premier League, National League games after brawl erupts at Hapoel Ramat Gan-Bnei Lod game
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