HaPoel

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Hapoel ( Hebrew הפועל, lit. the worker ) is the largest Israeli sports association. Founded in 1926 from the environment of the trade union federation Histadrut , it remains in the tradition of the Israeli labor movement to this day . The pronounced rivalry between Hapoel and the second major sports association Maccabi runs through all of Israeli sport.

Member of the Confédération Sportive Internationale du Travail ( CSIT ) since 1927 , Hapoel is the only workers' sports association in the world and the largest in its country. The international Hapoel organization was represented in many countries, but not in Germany, because here the workers' sports movement as a whole did not discriminate against its Jewish members and so the Jewish sports organizations were more nationally or Zionist.

The identification with the respective block, the red (Hapoel) or the yellow (Maccabi) was more important for the formation of the identity of the athletes, fans and clubs than that of the individual club. Until the internationalization of Israeli sport in the 1990s, it was almost unthinkable as a professional athlete to switch from one club to the other. But the enmity between the left-wing Hapoel supporters and the right-wing Betar supporters, especially the supporters of the successful first division team Beitar Jerusalem, is even more pronounced .

75% of HaPoel's budget is paid for from state funds. Nevertheless, there were only 15 full-time employees in 2010 and thus only ranked 12th among the national members of the CSIT.

Members

A selection of well-known member associations:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Uriel Simri: Hapoel: Israel's worker sports organization, in: Arnd Krüger & James Riordan (eds.): The Story of Worker Sport. Champaign, Ill .: Human Kinetics 1996, 157-166; A. KRÜGER: Worker Sport Around the World, ibid, pp. 171–180
  2. ↑ James Riodian: The Worker Sports Movement , in: James Riordan, Arnd Krüger (ed.): The International Politics of Sport in the Twentieth Century , 2002, ISBN 0203476360 , pp. 105-120, p. 115.
  3. ↑ Arnd Krüger : The German way of worker sports, in: A. KRÜGER & J. RIORDAN (eds.): The Story of Worker Sport. Champaign, Ill .: Human Kinetics 1996, 1-25.
  4. ↑ Felix Lebed, Michael Bar-Eli: Complexity and Control in Team Sports: Dialectics in Contesting Human Systems (= Routledge Research in Sport and Exercise Science, Volume 6), 2013, p. 126.
  5. ↑ Kalevi Olin (ed.): Sport, Peace and Development. International Worker Sport. 1913-2013 . Vienna: CSIT 2013, p. 121