Watch the incident: Bnei Sakhnin fans disrespect the anthem, and continue to cheer demonstratively even during the singing of "Hatikva"/Walla!
Minister of Internal Security Itamar Ben Gvir responded today (Saturday) to the incident that occurred in the Premier League match between Hapoel Hadera and Bnei Sakhnin, when the Sakhnin fans disrespected the national anthem "Hope" and sang in a demonstration during its playing, and then cursed Menashe Zelka and harassed him personally, apparently on the background Being a reservist in the IDF.
"I ordered the police to look into opening a criminal investigation into the events of the match between Hadera and Sakhnin, including the desecration of the national anthem, and I also asked to look into closing the stadium in Sakhnin.
Anyone who was involved in denigrating the national anthem and harming Menashe Zalka is a terrorist," Ben Gabir told Walla! Sport.
He received love from Hadera fans.
Zalka/Shlomi Gabai
He then added: "Despicing the flag and the symbol is a criminal offense. I passed it on to the police who will look into whether there is any reason to open an investigation against these terrorists from Sakhnin who desecrated the flag and the anthem, threw objects, cursed and behaved in a shameful and disgraceful manner. As far as I'm concerned, the stadium in Doha should be closed and everyone should fly to Syria."
A member of the Foreign Affairs and Security Committee MK Zvi Sukkot (religious Zionism) demands that the group be prosecuted. "This constitutes a serious injury to IDF fighters, and expresses support for terrorism and the enemy. The court must prosecute the group, so that such incidents do not happen again." .
It should be noted that according to the association's regulations, "you must not express yourself with racist statements, including shouting, growling, waving signs, and in any other way of expression, which contain any threat, humiliation, humiliation, display of hostility, hostility, violence, or causing condemnation towards a person, the public, or parts of the population And all due to belonging to race, religion or national ethnic origin."
Menashe Zelka responded at the end: "I am not the point, they will curse me and do what they want. But what happened to the anthem is a shame and disgrace. They humiliated it and it is infuriating. Because in the name of the flag and this anthem, quite a few IDF fighters are now fighting in Gaza and soldiers have been killed and there are grieving families .
That's the shame.
What they did to me, it's all nonsense.
I have the skin of an elephant.
It hurts me for other people, but 0:1 is small and sweet and it is for all the people of Israel.
I didn't expect to get applause, everything is fine."
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