“We expect Netanyahu to significantly increase the audience”

The football and basketball administrations were shocked by the Ministry of Health’s decision to increase the audience quotas that can reach sports games, up to 1,000 in the large basketball halls and 1,500 in the 30,000-seat football stadiums – it’s like playing without an audience.

Samuel FrenkelThe chairman of the basketball administration is furious at the decision and tells ONE: “There was a meeting last week with the heads of the Ministry of Health, including the projector, Prof. Ash, the director general of the Ministry of Health, Hezi Levy, together with Hili Trooper, the sports minister and his people. “This is about bringing in a crowd of 30% in each stand. The police representative who was present even said that the police are built to handle up to 50% of the crowd.”

Shmuel Frenkel (Itzik Belnitsky)

Frenkel goes on to say: “We left the meeting on the assumption that the decision would be between 25% -30% that an audience could enter, we were in the market to hear that the Ministry of Health is about to approve 500 in regular plots and a thousand in plots over 10,000. We spent two weeks playing with 300 fans, we saw that the whole process went according to the Ministry of Health outline including only the entry of a licensed audience, space between the fans, wearing a mask. We were even criticized for seeing that we met all requirements. In light of the successful experiment, we find no reason not to Upload the numbers. “

The chairman of the administration adds: “We are looking at the permits that the state has given to the malls, which are visited by tens of thousands every day, vaccinated and unvaccinated, without any criticism. This is where and where, discrimination of sports fans in Israel. Playing basketball and football with a small crowd, it’s like you’re playing without a crowd, not sporting a level of spending that also caused even more financial losses to teams. We call on the Prime Minister, who has stated that the Corona is behind us, to apply this to sports as well, the easiest place to control, when the league operates according to the outline of the Ministry of Health. ”

Benjamin Netanyahu and Shmuel Frenkel (Reuters, Noam Moreno)

Frenkel added: “In the 90th minute, before the government passes the regulations, Erez Kalfon and I turned to the prime minister, who according to his people was unaware of the summaries to get into the thick of things. Expect him to make a quick decision on a significant increase in audience. With us as if we are at the height of the corona, with tens of thousands dead. ”