1.
Yesterday (Wednesday), after a stormy meeting, the management of the Basketball Association decided on the dissolution of the Premier League administration and the return of the management of the league to the association.
The union has announced that in the near future a team will be set up to receive and manage the league in an orderly manner.
No less than 18 members of the management supported the closure of the administration, three opposed (representatives of Hapoel Jerusalem, Hapoel Tel Aviv and Nes Ziona), one abstained (Bnei Herzliya chairman Eldad Akunis) and five did not attend the meeting.
The big surprise: Adv. Sigal Ulfiner, Maccabi Rishon Lezion's representative on the union's management, supported the closure of the administration, even though the club is part of it.
"We went back 20 years," a source who attended the meeting said yesterday.
Shimon Mizrahi, Photo: Alan Shiver,
In
the last decade, there have been quite a few conflicts between the union and the administration, but they have been resolved because some of the union members are sitting at the administration's table.
The roots of the current conflict are in an agreement signed by the union's representatives (chairman of the professional committee Amos Frishman and Oded Nachman) with the chairman of the administration (Shmuel Frenkel) and the chairman of Hapoel Tel Aviv (Rami Cohen) somewhere on August 25, 2020.
The background to the conflict was then the refusal of the administration to recognize Hapoel Haifa as the second immigrant to the Premier League alongside Bnei Herzliya (due to the Corona they both rose due to their situation in the table).
According to the same agreement signed by the union's chairman Amiram Halevi, Hapoel Haifa's promotion to the Premier League was approved, which became 13 teams (in the next three seasons there will be two ups and two downs).
The trigger was that if one of the two immigrants from the national league did not realize its promotion, the Premier League would return to 12 teams and one immigrant and one relegation.
After Elitzur Netanya waived its right to be promoted to the senior league last summer, the administration announced that they are implementing the clause in the agreement and are returning to one ascent and one relegation.
Then the heads of the second league began to revolt and swept Halevy with them to break the tools in front of the league administration.
"The tail started wagging the dog instead of it being upside down," the union explained.
3.
Administration Premier League, headed by Frankel, clung to the agreement and refused attempts to compromise last month.
Yesterday, when the union switched to using Doomsday weapons, the group leaders (Guy Harel, Rami Cohen and Yaniv Mizrahi) rolled up their sleeves before leaving the yeshiva - and sent harsh threats.
The first step: we will not participate in the cup games this year, and thus the prestigious enterprise of the union will be harmed.
The second threat: the establishment of a private league in which there are no ups and downs, the removal of the youth departments from the union and the establishment of private youth leagues.
The second threat is without bullets in the barrel, because FIBA will expel all teams from Europe, and will not approve foreign registration in teams that establish local private leagues.
4. The
ball is now in the court of politicians, ie: Minister of Culture and Sports Hili Trooper.
"With Miri Regev, both sides were invited this morning to resolve the conflict," a union official said yesterday.
The Ministry of Sports will have to get into the thick of things quickly so that our "number one representative industry" does not collapse under the wars of the activists.
Full voting results:
for:
Sigal Ulpiner
Uri Ashkenazi
Naftali Bentov
Ilan Beck
Zahi Bransi
Ora Glazer
Amiram Halevi
Doron Hillel
Ron Vrotitsky
Menachem Widhorn
Eran
Tesel
Oded Nachman
Ehud Sulmi
Amos Frishman
Avi Katzenberg
Tali Krief
CPA Keren Stoyar
Nissim Ron
Abstained / did not participate:
Eldad Akunis
Neta Abogov
Tomer Barzilai
Nava Gal
Iris Vaknin
Shimon Mizrahi
against:
Yaniv Mizrahi
Guy Harel
Rami Cohen
