Thus, the survivor of the captivity, Emily Damari, recorded a video that was shown to tens of thousands of Maccabi Tel Aviv fans, while for them they do not forget for a moment their fellow fans who are still in captivity.
Thus, the family of the late Tzachi Idan, who was murdered in captivity by Hamas terrorists, launched a red brooch together with the fans of the Hapoel Tel Aviv team, and to this day its fans are putting flowers on the permanent seat of the late Tzachi Idan at Gate 7 of the Bloomfield Stadium.
And so, the captivity survivor, Yair Horn, who returned from captivity after almost 500 days, asked on his way home to pass over Turner Stadium, the stadium of his beloved team, Hapoel Be'er Sheva, the same stadium where the events that are the subject of this judgment took place.
- Needless to say, the game of soccer is also a breeding ground for many cultural works, starting with poetry, R., for example, the book "Reading a Game - An Anthology of Israeli Football Songs with Foreign Reinforcement" (published by Makam for Poetry), a collection of poems about soccer edited by Gilad Meiri, through books, such as the well-known book "Fever Pitch" by Nick Hornby, to significant journalistic writing, R., for example, the article by the publicist and author Dr. Ariel Grays "The most boring and interesting sport in the world" (Calcalist, December 11, 2022), or journalist Nir Zadok's article "Without an audience, nothing is worth anything" (Ynet, September 30, 2024).
Thus, in view of soccer in popular culture as well, for example, the television series "Ted Lasso" is derived from the phrase "Football is life" that appears in the title of this episode, which is also mentioned in Dr. Grays's article above.
- On this platform of the importance of the game of soccer for its fans, it is worth understanding that the crowning glory of a football fan is that your favorite team wins the championship, while the low moment of the football fan is the team's relegation to a lower league.
- In the special case before me, the results of this ruling, and in fact the outcome of the specific match between Hapoel Be'er Sheva and Bnei Sakhnin, can have an impact on both the identity of the champion and the identity of the relegated team. The status of points in the Premier League table today, both at the top and at the bottom, shows that the fate of the championship can be decided by a gap of one point, so this ruling, which has the potential to give one of the teams up to three points, and in the case of Hapoel Be'er Sheva, four points, is critical for the championship fight and the relegation battle.
- Against the background of the above, I have examined in depth the decisions of the refereeing institutions in the case before me and the arguments of the parties, and in my opinion, there is no room to intervene in the decision of the Supreme Court of the Football Association to determine the result of the game 0:0 without points.
However, I saw fit to return the hearing to the Association's Supreme Court, in order for it to discuss, with an open heart and a willing soul, the possibility of scheduling a rematch between the teams, in lieu of the aforementioned result.