The Beitar Jerusalem Gazette
Squad14 Sep 2026
Amit Ohana damages knee ligaments — 21 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 21 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Timo Muzie runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 28. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Real improvement from Amit Kornfine at Beitar Jerusalem
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Amit Kornfine is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Gil Cohen falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Match12 Sep 2026
Pedro Martelo’s goal not enough for Beitar Jerusalem
Pedro Martelo scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Maccabi Tel Aviv, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Oufa Shobeir
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
In brief
- Market Beitar Jerusalem buy the years ahead of Nir Atzili
- Market Window shut, Amit Kornfine still here
- Player ratings The referee tires of Gil Cohen