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A flare is thrown at the volleyball court by Maccabi Tel Aviv fans during the quarter-final Challenger Cup match against Nicosia's Omonia V.C. in Tel Aviv, January 12, 2022. (Channel 5 screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
January 13, 2023, 12:45 pm
Maccabi Tel Aviv fans booted from volleyball game for throwing flares on to field
Supporters disrupt game against visiting Cyprus team, ignore warnings from referees and sports minister
By Michael Horovitz
Illustrative: Umm el Fahm soccer fans seen during a game between Beitar and the team from the Arab-Israeli town of Umm el Fahm, in Jeursalem on January 29, 2013. (FLASH90)
May 7, 2018, 12:21 am
Police officer lightly hurt by rock thrown after soccer game
Fans of home team in Umm al-Fahm hurl stones at field; police say investigating violence
By ToI Staff
Beitar Jerusalem fans during the match against Bnei Sakhnin F.C. at the Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem on Monday, January 22, 2018. (Roy Alima/Flash90)
January 23, 2018, 10:24 am
Israeli soccer club vows crackdown on racist fans after anti-Arab chants
Beitar Jerusalem says it will close entire section of its home stadium, threatens to revoke fans’ season tickets
By Michael Bachner
Players from Brazil's Chapecoense celebrate at the end of a Copa Sudamericana semifinal soccer match against Argentina's San Lorenzo in Chapeco, Brazil, Nov. 23, 2016. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
August 22, 2017, 6:07 pm
Wiesenthal Center program against racism part of Youth Olympic games
Project works with sport authorities, athletes and referees to prevent racial hatred in sports
By JTA
Avram Grant in August 2009. (photo credit: Abir Sultan/Flash90)
February 6, 2015, 8:27 am
Avram Grant’s Ghana reaches Africa Cup final despite fan violence
Israeli coach of semifinal winners says he was worried about his players’ safety
By AP and 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
Illustrative photo of an ambulance (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)
July 14, 2014, 6:13 am
Israeli teenager severely wounded in tiff over World Cup match
Sixteen-year-old in hospital after being bashed over the head by a friend
By ToI Staff
Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball player Sofoklis Schortsanitis. (photo credit: Botend/Wikimedia Commons/File)
April 8, 2014, 5:20 pm
Maccabi Tel Aviv player goes after fan in the stands
Sofoklis Schortsanitis charges off court at end of basketball game against city rivals; club says fan threatened his daughter
By Aron Dónzis
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)
February 13, 2013, 2:36 am
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
Beitar fans at Teddy Stadium Sunday night. (Screenshot: Sport 1)
February 10, 2013, 8:54 pm
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
By Gabe Fisher and Adiv Sterman
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)
February 10, 2013, 9:15 am
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 ToI Staff
Former Chechen rebel and current head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov (photo credit: screen capture/YouTube)
February 9, 2013, 2:57 am
Head of Chechnya to attend Beitar’s soccer game Sunday
Leader of Russian republic reportedly coming in light of fans’ racist outrage over club’s signing of two Muslim Chechen players
By Michal Shmulovich and Yoel Goldman
April 22, 2012, 1:53 pm
Netanyahu: No room for violence in soccer
PM makes statement after brawl at game leads to 22 arrests and league suspension
By Gabe Fisher
April 1, 2012, 9:37 am
Palestinian player knocked out in latest soccer violence incident
Mass brawl erupts at the end of a dramatic game as Petah Tikva beats Haifa
By Aaron Kalman
Egyptian fans clash with riot police following a soccer game at the stadium in Port Said in February (photo credit: AP)
March 24, 2012, 5:33 am
One dead, 18 injured in renewed Egyptian soccer violence
Al-Masry fans battle security forces after soccer authority suspends the club for February’s deadly riot
By Ilan Ben Zion
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