Noble Omar is not yet a member of Maccabi Haifa’s squad, but the very desire of the Premier League leader to include the player who was part of the “minors affair”, and was therefore released from Maccabi Tel Aviv – resonates in the local sports space. Tonight (Sunday), well, a letter was sent to Yaakov Shachar from the Association of Centers for Assistance to Victims and Victims of Sexual Assault – calling on the President of the Greens not to sign Noble. Contents of the letter in front of you:
1. As you probably know very well, last June a criminal investigation was opened against a nobleman on suspicion of having sex with a 15-year-old minor.
2. Although the criminal investigation into the matter has been closed, the publications surrounding the affair show that the player’s conduct did not meet any required moral and value standards and is expected of a football player who is, among other things, a role model for boys and girls.
3. In our opinion, the choice of a well-known and well-known actor who is admired on all sides, to take advantage of his high public status in order to exploit young women who only wanted to be near him, as evidenced by the various publications, evokes a sense of despair.
With success, publicity, money, admiration, status and fame that accompany the status of a football player in a big club in the Premier League comes a big responsibility and hence that whoever chooses to take advantage of all this in front of minor girls, does not deserve to be in the ranks of a big and respectable club like Maccabi Haifa.
5. From the experience of the Association of Assistance Centers for Victims and Victims of Sexual Assault and from the experience of 9 assistance centers operating throughout the country, which have accompanied thousands of victims for decades, it can be said that harm to minors leaves a deep imprint on the psyche and their exploitation is far-reaching. The victims are often injured over many years.
Moreover, any public legitimacy granted to those who have abused their power and status adds to and harms the girls themselves, but also conveys a false message to the fans as if the acts done by the nobles are legitimate.
7. It is only that the moral continuum expected of figures who win public embrace, and who win the admiration of many young men and women, must be higher than the legal-criminal threshold. We as a society that strives to be a reformed society to conduct ourselves when the value of human dignity is a candle to our feet and we should not glorify those who choose to trample on the dignity, soul and body of young women.
In view of the above, we believe that there is no place for the Maccabi Haifa football club to give the nobles the opportunity to play on the main stage of Israeli football and thus convey to the general public and young men and women in particular the wrong and erroneous message that noble behavior is acceptable, legitimate and perhaps even desirable. The right to belong to the ranks of a luxury team such as Maccabi Haifa should be given only to those who have not suffered such a serious defect in their conduct.
9. “The man before the player” is a sentence that accompanies Maccabi Haifa for many years, but in order for these words to have real meaning and to prove that it is not an empty sentence of any content, we call on you not to sign the noble player Omar in Maccabi Haifa and thus whiten His deeds, to glorify his name and increase his financial and non-financial profits.