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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 428

Zaur Sadayev

Police bring two suspects arrested for arson at the Beitar Jerusalem football team's office to the Magistrate's Court in Jerusalem on February 19, 2013. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
February 19, 2013, 5:11 pm
Two arrested for torching Beitar Jerusalem offices
Racial tensions have been running high since the soccer club signed two Muslim players in January
By Asher Zeiger
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
Beitar Jerusalem fans at Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem in 2013. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 7, 2013, 10:03 pm
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
Fans of the Beitar Jerusalem soccer team hold up a sign reading 'Beitar forever pure,' during a match on January 26, 2013. (Flash90)
February 6, 2013, 6:19 pm
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
Beitar Jerusalem head coach Eli Cohen, center, flanked by Gabriel Kadiev, left, and Zaur Sadayev at a press conference, January 31, 2013. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 31, 2013, 1:46 am
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
Fans of the Beitar Jerusalem soccer team hold up a sign reading 'Beitar forever pure,' during a match on January 26, 2013. (Flash90)
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
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