No man has seen a halo like the halo of Bethari who sees with his own eyes his idol, his beloved - Eli Ohana.
"What are you so excited about?
Okay, so he brought you degrees.
What is your extreme story with Ohana?'' Every Beitar fan was asked at least once in his life by a stranger who didn't understand it.
The truth is that beyond everything - the style, the power, the pride, the fame, Australia, Yoram Arbel's 'Hallelujah' and the Beit'ri majesty that Eli is gifted with, as if defining it in practice, we, the Beit'ers, have gratitude towards Eli.
Cristiano Ronaldo, Gianluigi Buffon, Roberto Baggio, Leo Messi, Pep Guardiola, Marco Van Basten and Ehad-Eli Ohana.
In total, since the 1970s, out of tens of thousands of players, only 35 players have won the unique 'Bravo' award for the most promising young footballer in Europe.
Eli was one of them.
When we understand this, we can understand a little, if only a little, how huge Ohana was in Europe in the 80s, and how much his return from the top of the world's top and a historic win in the European Cup for Beitar Jerusalem, at that time a team in the second division in Israel, is nothing less than a miracle.
Almost a real divine mission for Beitar fans and a miracle on a global scale.
An act that will never be forgotten.
A few years ago, while he held an official position at the club, I entered Eli's office at Beit Vegan.
In an extremely unusual way, there was a camera and next to it two European guys who looked at Ohana with a look of rare admiration.
"These are guys from Belgium.
from Mechelen
They came to do an article, 30 years since the historic win in the European Cup.
Look what it is,' he told me with a shy smile with a hint of nostalgia.
The Belgians weren't really interested in who I was or anything else around that wasn't part of the holiness before them.
Can't blame them.
Ohana with players from Mechelen, photo: Getty Images
As part of the meeting, they showed Ohana video clips in which the people of Mechelen send him greetings, asking, literally begging him to come visit Belgium, sharing with him historical photos and Israeli flags that are still with the members of the group for 30 years.
Vali, the winner of the award for the best young actor in the entire continent of Europe, was admired at unimaginable levels at the time, (and from their bright eyes you can understand that this is true even 30 years later), says to his guests: "I hope that they remember me in Maclan as a nice person, as a gentleman, because never I didn't rely on my popularity. I didn't consider myself a rock star. It's important to be nice, to listen to people when they need me. It can sometimes be dangerous - you're famous, you have a lot of money and there are quite a few girls around you. I think the fact that I didn't get lost has to do with my character . Even then I looked at life in a very rational and logical way. I was grateful most of the time."
Ohana's picture on the cover of a magazine in Belgium, photo: Private
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Eli, not only did he not get lost, but helped us find and reinvent ourselves and redefine the term Bethari.
In style, with pride, in a way that only Eli could pave for us.
And for that, we Beitarians will always be grateful to Ohana gods - because Ohana is Beitar.
Happy 60th birthday to our beloved Ellie, and a little bit of ours as well.
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