No Fighting, I'm Jewish
Sydney Morning Herald
Tuesday September 20, 1988
Tomorrow is Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. The most holy day in the Jewish calender and definitely not the day for Yehuda Ben Hayim to punch anyone on the nose, even an Arab.
The day requires total abstinence from worldly endeavour and that includes the Israeli team of 35 in Seoul and Yehuda Ben Hayim, a 48kg boxer, who has to forfeit a match against a Moroccan fighter.
But the Israeli team is hoping for a zero-zero result because the Moroccans are bound to forfeit rather than fight an Israeli. "We're hoping the Moroccans don't realise it's Yom Kippur and maintain their boycott," Raphael Naeh, a reporter from Tel Aviv, said.
© 1988 Sydney Morning Herald