A few months before seeing Beitar’s game against Hapoel Tel Aviv, I had visited Teddy Stadium for a match that epitomised another, uglier divide in Israeli society. The visiting team was Bnei Sakhnin, at the time the only club in the top division from an Israeli-Palestinian town, and one that is seen as the sporting standard-bearer of the country’s Arab minority. Even more than on normal nights, the chants and songs from Beitar’s terraces were full of anti-Arab sentiment. The away fans were screamed down as “terrorists” and taunted with chants of “The Temple Mount is ours” – a reference to the site in Jerusalem’s Old City which is venerated by both Muslims and Jews.
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