Tiktukno: summary of today's events in sports, 7.11 (Sport1)
A few days after he had an unprecedented success with the religious Zionist party in the elections to the 25th Knesset, the chairman of the party, Bezalel Smotrich, is turning his attention to Israeli football. According to all estimates, Smotrich will receive a position as a minister in the government that the Likud chairman will appoint, Benjamin Netanyahu.
Smotrich sent a letter today (Monday) to the Chairman of the Football Leagues Directorate, Erez Kalfon, in which he complained about the fact that in the Premier League in football matches are held during the Sabbath. .
You chose to blatantly ignore a large audience of actors, children and families."
Bezalel Smotrich (Photo: Reuven Castro)
Smotrich proposed to hold "celebratory and family events during Israel's holidays" and claimed: "The exclusion of half of the Israeli public from football, both as spectators and as active participants, must stop. This is a step that is not democratic, not sporting, and not Jewish.
"For the past year and a half, we have gathered with representatives of the Ministry of Sports with the desire to open the the gates and to reduce the exclusion of children and families who
observe
the Sabbath from the fields, it seems that the spirit of the minister and the ministry to reduce exclusion has not
penetrated at all to the offices of the directorate which continues to operate in a patronizing and predatory manner."
and in them tens of thousands of young people are taken who are busy studying on weekdays.
By the way, in May 2020, Miri Regev, who served as Minister of Sports, demanded that Israeli soccer teams receive permission to return to training as elsewhere in the world during the Corona virus.
In response, Vasmotrich said disdainfully: "Because in the world it really is football."
He later apologized.
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