Ministry of Health confirmed: Maccabi took off to Belgrade

Final: Maccabi Tel Aviv will take off for Belgrade. At the end of a tumultuous day in which Health Ministry officials threatened to issue a legal order against the group, it was eventually decided that the flight would be a series, and the Yellows will play against the Red Star in Serbia tomorrow (Friday). The Israeli representative in Euroleague received the final approval by talking to Deputy Director General of the Ministry, Itamar Grotto, and departing Belgrade.

In the backdrop of Maccabi Tel Aviv’s impressive victory over Andulo Zero last night (Wednesday) in the Hall, there is no doubt that the story was the drama surrounding the audience following the Corona panic. Throughout the evening Maccabi went underground and in fact issued no communication to the media and the public about the amount of fans that could come to the game. The only message that came out to the audience was only in the midst of the game.
The Director General of the Ministry of Health, Moshe Bar Sim Good, was in contact with the Maccabi people for the entire evening, regarding the issue of the audience, but did not discuss with them at all about the isolation matter in which the group is obliged to stay according to the Ministry’s instructions.
It should be noted that the Ministry of Health’s guidelines are in line with which it was not decided that sports teams should be killed by the isolation managers. According to the Ministry of Health’s instructions, members of Maccabi Tel Aviv, who returned from Spain on February 22, should have been in isolation, but the Ministry of Health did not enforce the directive in front of the club’s members.
professor Itamar GrottoThe Deputy Director General of the Ministry of Health is valid on “5 in the air”: “For us, Maccabi cannot board the flight to Belgrade. An order is available so that Maccabi will not take off.”
Subsequently, the Ministry of Health has officially issued a statement: “If players who were in a returning country are required to be in isolation then they are also required to stay in solitary confinement, we may take enforcement action against violators of the order.”
Maccabi Tel Aviv is set to take off for Belgrade, ahead of Friday’s game against the Red Star. The flight will be leased and about 100 fans are expected to join it, and it is unclear at this time what the guidance will be for the team and fans when they return from the Serbian capital.

Back to the game against Andulo. As mentioned, Maccabi did not issue any notice in the hours before the contest and some fans did not like the conduct. My father, a Maccabi fan who did not go to the hall, told the sports channel: “For a whole evening, I waited to hear what Maccabi said and said nothing. I live in Pardes Hana, let us understand that the game will be conducted without an audience, so I gave up. Simply irritating disdain, as if we were planning for those who would come in and those who would not. ”
Efrat, another fan, chose not to come for another reason: “They announced that the players in general should be in isolation, so why should I put myself in the same place with people who might turn out to be blue? I think there is an irresponsibility of the Ministry of Health here.”
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