Maccabi Tel Aviv ignored the Ministry of Health guidelines and violated the isolation order that applied to them by hosting Andulus Zero in Yad Eliyahu • The club does not fear the criminal implications: "studying the matter" • And also: the problems expected of Israelis in Europe due to the Corona
A fan with a mask, Yad Eliyahu yesterday
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Alan Shaver
The Health Ministry's announcement Wednesday afternoon that a gathering of 5,000 people is prohibited due to fear of the spread of the corona virus has significant implications for holding basketball games in Israel in the near future.
The immediate impact was on Hapoel Jerusalem's and Tel Aviv's European matches. The Reds hosted the Greek Frishtri in the first match of the FIFA Champions League eighth match yesterday, while the Yellows allowed only 3,300 fans to watch the meet against Anadolu Zero, instead of 11,000. Who were supposed to fill the temple with Yad Eliyahu.
Apart from that, there are implications for the future. On Sunday, Israeli basketball's Classic Basketball Arena will be held between Hapoel Jerusalem and Maccabi and it is still unclear whether and in what format it will take place, as well as the other Premier League cycle games. The board of directors will meet on Friday to discuss the guidelines and then final decisions will be made.
The Health Ministry's additional decision that, apart from Italy, those coming from Spain, Germany, France, Switzerland and Austria should stay in solitary confinement for two weeks from the destination's departure are likely to have far-reaching consequences. Maccabi Tel Aviv played Spain against Valencia on February 21 and left the country a day later. This means that the team players and people should stay in isolation by Saturday, but she appeared for the game against the Turkish team.
According to the law, a breach of a domestic isolation ban may amount to a criminal charge, and that violation can result in lengthy prison sentences, as said Professor Sigal Sadecki, head of the public health system at the Ministry of Health at a special press conference: "People who do not report truth or try to evade isolation or not. We carry out the isolation we see it very severely and will act very harshly against them. " Tel Aviv Maccabi said in response: "We are learning the matter."
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In addition, the Israeli champion will not be able to host the Spanish Basque Country next week as part of the Euroleague, as soon as the visiting team lands in Israel its players will have to enter the isolation. One of the options is to hold the match in a neutral state as the critical EuroCap game between Virtus Bologna and Drushpaka is scheduled to be held in Belgrade soon, but a reasonable possibility would certainly be postponing the game.
Hapoel Jerusalem will also face a similar problem in the next phase. Assuming the Reds pass Prishtri, the next rival will come from the series between Spanish Burgos and Italian dynamo Cesari (the first game of the series ended in a Burgos victory), two teams that, just like Basconia, can't make it to Israel.
In the next few days, the cup holder will hold consultations with FIBA members and then decisions will be made. In any case, the series against Prishtri is expected to continue as the series and next Wednesday the Reds will be staying with the group from western Athens in the hope that new restrictions on travel to Greece will also apply.
