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Israel's Sports Fanaticisa and
the Russian Immigrants' Plight
BY HASKELL COHEN
(Copyright 1976, JTA, Inc.)
It had to happen sooner or
later, namely, the Russian
immigrants to Israel, upset
over their plight, are con-
trasting•Israeli attitudes
towards sports with their
approach to the Russian
olim.
During the past few days
Haskell Polarevich, head of
the Organization of Former
Prisoners of Zion, during a
poorly attended protest vigil
in front of the Israel offices
of the Finnish Embassy,
which handles some of the
Soviet affairs in Israel,
bluntly came out with a
statement to the effect that
"Had the Israeli public been
able to show aliya a fraction
of the enthusiasm they dis-
play over a football match,
immigration to Israel would
have been much greater."
We don't want to get in-
volved on the subject of
aliya. The fact does remain,
however, that for a small
country Israel evinces a con-
siderable amount of interest
and generates a lot of enthu-
siasm for its various sports
teams.
Soccer plays a vital role
in the daily life of Many Is-
raelis for the simple rea-
son that the state permits
a controlled lottery to take
place every week on the
National League football
games. You may have
read, recently, where an
Arab residing in a small
community near Nazareth
won $300,000 in the weekly
pool.
Some of the winnings
have become so astronomi-
cal that the government now
has placed a ceiling on the
top prize that can be allo-
cated to a first place winner
during any given week.
• Basketball is now vying
with soccer for popularity in
the sports field. There is no
question but the hoop game
has come along rapidly ever
since Nat Holman intro-
duced the sport to Israelis in
1949. Today every village
and hamlet and kibutz have
basketball courts laid out,
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to line up some of this up-
coming available talent.
One can readily see that a
Russian Jewish activist,
who virtually had to fight
his way out of the Soviet
Union is unhappy about the
Holy Land's apathy to his
plight. He sees all the hulla-
baloo over sports while he
feels ignored by the local
citizenry.
A perusal of the Israeli
sport pages don't send
these Russian immigrants
into paroxysms of joy
when they see the Mayor
of Jerusalem being outfit-
ted with a soccer uniform
by the Jerusalem Betar
eleven, the recent National
Cup champions.
With all this sports activ-
ity on the. mind of the Israe-
lis it is not hard to fathom
why the Soviet olim rapidly
are becoming disenchanted
and looking for relief else-
where.
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determine the flow of Soviet
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