Jonathan Ginzburg 01/04/2024 09:59
Hapoel Rahat season 2023-24 (courtesy of the club)
The Supreme Court of the Football Association “softened” the punishment of Hapoel Rahat from the third league. In a panel of three judges, Professor and Attorney Miguel Deutsch, Attorney David Yahav and Attorney Ortel Klein, it was determined that the penalty imposed on the club (a fine of NIS 75,000) will be reduced to only 30,000 NIS. Three more points were deducted, beyond the point that was deducted at the time, by the judge, Adv. Israel Shimoni.
After receiving that punishment (NIS 75,000), attorney Eyal Yaffe stepped into the picture and took case number 31-23-24 in an attempt to help Hapoel Rahat not to break up and continue its existence in Israeli football. “D. Il Yaffe in the case of Hapoel Rahat. The appellant referred to the fine, in an attempt to continue to maintain the group, which is not supported by the municipality and has quite a few youths who will not be thrown out onto the streets.
In the judgment it is written between the lines that: “It was appropriate to sentence the appellant to a sentence of immediate cessation of activity in practice (as mentioned, the disciplinary court sentenced a sentence of conditional cessation of activity). However, it must be taken into account to some extent that no appeal was filed by the prosecutor and to avoid exhausting the full sentence that should have been imposed on the appellant, if such an appeal had been filed. Other institutions to which the appellant referred, there is nothing to rule out a special aggravation against her.”
“Each case and its circumstances. It should be added that the design of the policy was done by the Supreme Court. This policy is applied according to the case in question. Before us, as mentioned, is a particularly extreme case. In view of all that has been said, I will propose that four points be actually deducted from the appellant (instead of a reduction of one point, decreed by the disciplinary court), and the fine will amount to 30,000 shekels. The sentence of conditional suspension of activity decreed by the disciplinary court is more valid,” the panel of judges concluded.
