The plaintiff admits that he was called to return to Hapoel to Jerusalem "even though I was told to come back" and did not come and stayed to work at Rav Bariach. In these circumstances, the plaintiff resigned and the sequence of seasonality should not be applied in the matter of the Yanai Cohen judgment above. The plaintiff stopped the streak on his own initiative and even temporarily stopped football at all.
He also testifies:
"Idid not pay the salaries. I didn't have anything that Hapoel Jerusalem owes me except for all those years we played. But payments and such payments I had no demands from Hapoel Jerusalem
- Q. When you left Hapoel for Nazareth Illit, at your request, there was some kind of financial debt of Hapoel to you.
- Nope.
- You had some kind of lawsuit against Hapoel.
- Nope. Nothing.
- What a claim.
- Nope. Because I knew I was going for a year of recuperation and coming back. I'm a home player. I'm the symbol of the team."
(Prov. p. 32, paras. 25-31)(Emphasis mine, S.S.).
"Q. And at the end of that year you didn't come back. You stayed in Nazareth Illit.
- Yes. My wife started working. I was supposed to stay in Nazareth Illit for another season. I don't want to go into the details of why it didn't work out for me. The contract in Nazareth Elite was twice the contract in Jerusalem. The season began, and it didn't work out there. I don't have to go in now and elaborate on why.
- You do need to elaborate.
- I decided to stay in Nazareth for another season because my contract was high. My wife found a good job there. One of the players who is the symbol of Nazareth Elite, Yaniv Cohen, would have managed all the affairs. I'll summarize: my contract there was much better; I moved there with my family. I lived there. After a few months, when the season started there, we didn't get along for all sorts of reasons, professionally and financially. I stayed there from August until I decided to return to Hapoel Jerusalem without a team. I would come here, to my family, almost every Saturday. I would come to see Hapoel, and these are Victor's words, come back. My wife didn't want to go back. That's one of the reasons we lingered there. In the end, we relented and came back.
- When did you start working at Rav Bariach?
- I worked there for two months. I sat at home doing nothing."
(Prov. p. 33, paras. 1-13).