FEATURE: It was very important for me to live in the center because there are quite a few Jews here, Damari says. There are kosher restaurants, synagogues, and you even hear Hebrew here and there. Damari signed a four-year contract with Austria in the summer, guaranteeing himself a salary of 350-400 thousand euros a season – more than double his wages in Israel. His signing cost the club 1.6 million euros, with a sizable portion coming in the form of a donation from a wealthy businessman of Jewish origin. The clubs ties with the Jewish community are certainly not coincidental. During the early 1900s, Hakoah Wien, many of whose players were Jewish, featured strongly in the Austrian league. The Nazi occupation, however, saw the club shut down, and many of its Jewish players perished in Auschwitz.
Posted on: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 02:00:00 +0000
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