[Mishuh]

I've got one question for Beitar fans, though it does noy concern our game it still interests me as a football fan. On one of your flags I've seen 1936, how come. I mean back then there was no Israel and it would have been quite difficult to form a strictly jewish football club in Jerusalem back in 1936. I see two explanaitions to this, one is that Beitar wasn't all-jewish at the begining, the second one is that you were some diaspora club in Europe and you moved to Jerusalem after Israel had been formed. Ofcourse I may be wrong and maybe you were able to form a strictly jewish club in Jerusalem back in 1936. Anyway could you explain this topic? And to make that clear, I don't want to make fun of you nor to insult you, I'm simply curious.

good one, you got me curious as well.

After Wiki:
"Two Jerusalemites, David Horn and Shmuel Kirschstein, decided in 1936 to form a local football team. David Horn was the local chief of Betar, the youth movement of the Revisionist (liberal nationalist) Party, a pre-statehood Zionist movement. To this day Beitar fans are generally identified with that movement's successor party, the Likud or other right-wing groups. The leaders of the youth federation saw this as a project to produce a football club with Beitar's self-defined qualities of Hadar (self-respect) and Hod (glory). The earliest squad was composed entirely of Beitar youth members, including a future government minister, Chaim Corfu. They played initially at the "banana field" close to Beitar youth group's "nest"."

A confirmation or denial maybe?