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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 370

Yossi Benayoun

File: Israel's Moanes Dabour, left, fights for the ball with Scotland's Liam Cooper during the Euro 2020 playoff semifinal soccer match between Scotland and Israel, at the Hampden stadium in Glasgow, Scotland, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Scott Heppell)
October 9, 2022, 3:27 pm
Israel hopeful of qualifying for Euro 2024 soccer tournament after favorable draw
National squad finds itself in Group I along with Switzerland, Romania, Kosovo, Belarus and Andorra; top two teams in each group will qualify for games in Germany
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Beitar Jerusalem player Yossi Benayoun seen during the match between Beitar Jerusalem and Bnei Sakhnin F.C. at the Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem on March 31, 2019. (Flash90)
April 11, 2019, 3:17 pm
Israeli soccer star Yossi Benayoun announces retirement after 22-year career
38-year-old who played for English clubs Liverpool, Chelsea and Arsenal will become professional manager for Beitar Jerusalem; ‘I am happy with my soccer journey,’ he says
By Michael Bachner
Illustrative: UK Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis gives a speech as he attends a Holocaust Memorial Day Ceremony at Central Hall Westminster, on January 27, 2015. (AP/Chris Jackson)
May 4, 2016, 6:06 am
UK chief rabbi: Labour’s anti-Semitism problem ‘severe’
Ephraim Mirvis slams those who seek to ‘redefine Zionism, vilify it’; suspended Labour MP Naz Shah resigns from anti-Semitism panel
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Britain's opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn gives a speech from the top of a double-decker bus at a May Day rally in London on May 1, 2016. (AFP PHOTO/JUSTIN TALLIS)
May 3, 2016, 2:34 am
UK’s Labour ‘secretly suspended 50 members for anti-Semitic, racist comments’
Report comes as Corbyn for first time concedes that party does have problem with anti-Semitism in its ranks, but insists it is ‘not huge’
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Britain's Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn is pictured as he leaves his home in London on April 29, 2016. (AFP/Leon Neal)
May 2, 2016, 8:11 pm
Third UK Labour official in day suspended for anti-Israel remarks
Israel Labor Party head weighs suspending ties with British counterpart over anti-Semitic sentiments of ‘small and loud minority’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Israeli football player Eran Zahavi. (photo credit: Alon Shafransky/PARAZAR)
February 4, 2016, 11:00 pm
Israeli player speaks up for pope’s soccer match
Eran Zahavi of Maccabi Tel Aviv among the first to upload a video message of support
By JTA
Yossi Benayoun (right) in action for Arsenal (photo credit: CC-BY Wonker/Flickr)
June 8, 2014, 2:53 am
Benayoun OKs two-year deal to join Maccabi Haifa
Veteran midfielder, one of the best Israelis to ever play soccer, will wrap up a 12-year European career
By AP
Israel's last World Cup goal came against Sweden in 1970. (screen capture: YouTube)
April 1, 2014, 4:41 am
Israel’s World Cup failings aren’t about size
Plenty of smaller countries have qualified for this year’s soccer tournament in Brazil, so what’s holding the national team back?
By Aron Heller
West Ham United fans display a banner supporting the team in a match against Tottenham Hotspurs in 2008 (photo credit: CC BY-SA, Kevin Law, Wikimedia Commons)
June 5, 2013, 6:57 am
British soccer team absolved after inquiry into anti-Semitic fans
West Ham United issues a lifetime ban on a season ticket holder who was arrested after November game
Adam Green with fellow British fans of the English soccer club Chelsea on their way to a match in Amsterdam, May 15, 2013. (photo credit: Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)
May 23, 2013, 10:38 pm
Kicking racism out of soccer proves a tough goal
England claims to be a world leader and is giving Israeli activists some training, but it has yet to eliminate anti-Semitism among its own supporters
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Yossi Benayoun (photo credit: CC-BY-Elemaki/Jose Porras/Wikipedia)
May 14, 2013, 1:52 pm
Chelsea FC calls in police over abuse of Israeli player
Midfielder Yossi Benayoun engages in Twitter battle with anti-Semitic fans
Yossi Benayoun (photo credit: CC-BY-Elemaki/Jose Porras/Wikipedia)
April 23, 2013, 3:16 pm
UK soccer club probes fan abuse of Israeli player
Midfielder Yossi Benayoun says taunts by some of Chelsea’s followers are ‘crossing the limit’
Itzik Shanan
November 4, 2012, 3:02 pm
Itzik Shanan
Refusing to play the racism game
Black players in Israeli soccer have been enduring despicable treatment from fans. The time has come for this behavior to end
Yossi Benayoun (photo credit: CC-BY-Elemaki/Jose Porras/Wikipedia)
October 7, 2012, 12:04 pm
Benayoun left out of World Cup qualifiers against Luxembourg
National coach cuts captain because he barely plays for his club team
By Philip Podolsky
Israel national team's head coach Eli Gutman (photo credit:Flash90)
September 8, 2012, 2:39 am
Israel draws with Azerbaijan in opening World Cup soccer qualifier
1-1 tie seen as disappointing; new coach pledges to do everything to win next match against Russia
By Ron Friedman
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