The women’s basketball premier league teams received hundreds of thousands of shekels today (Wednesday) as part of the program to encourage the status of the Israeli player, a budget that has so far been distributed only to the men’s teams in the basketball and football industries. As part of the budget that will be distributed for the first time, each group of women in the basketball Premier League will receive an amount of up to NIS 600,000 this season. This is a total amount of about NIS 6 million per season. Today, the Ministry of Culture and Sports transferred about 3 million to the teams.
It should be noted that the women’s soccer teams also receive an average of NIS 300,000 this season, all against meeting various criteria such as the number of Israeli players on the field, the quality of the professional team and investment in the girls’ teams. For comparison, last year the women’s basketball teams received about NIS 67,000. Only women’s and women’s football teams did not receive a budget at all, while the men’s teams in the football and basketball industries received a total of about NIS 14 million.
The precedent was made possible after many efforts by the director of the Women’s Premier League in basketball and as part of the goals set by the chairman of the director, Hila Knister Bar-David, to achieve budgetary gender equality between the women’s ball sports, when finally the Ministry of Culture and Sports A coefficient of corrective preference for criteria in a way that will strengthen the women’s teams in the ball industries.
Canister Bar-David Commented on the precedent-setting achievement: “For many years, the state has invested hundreds of millions of shekels in men’s sports alone. One of the goals I set for myself when I took office is to change this mix, and open up the possibility for women to integrate as professionals, at the highest level, in Israel.” “The change is still a long way off. I would like to thank the Minister of Culture and Sports, Hili Troper, for the partnership and for the willingness to invest in Israeli actresses.”
More Uri KahanaThe spokeswoman for the director of the Women’s Basketball Super League commented on the precedent change in the criteria: “How many more Israeli players are on the field.”