Yesterday four members of the Maccabi Tel Aviv squad came to the "Tachana" cultural centre in Tel Aviv's Neve Tsedek neighbourhood to help MTA fans pack holiday parcels for the needy

For the second year in succession Maccabi Tel Aviv Football Club joined the "Shoreshim" organisation in helping to prepare special Passover holiday food parcels for the needy. In the absence of the twelve MTA players who are on international duty, squad members Rade Prica, Ignacio Fideleff, Avi Strul and and Reef Peretz all came to the "Tachana" cultural centre in Tel Aviv's Neve Tsedek neighbourhood and joined representatives of Maccabi Tel Aviv's Fan Community Support Group "Achim Besemel" and some hundred MTA supporters in helping to pack parcels of food for families in need at this Passover holiday period. Players and fans stood in two lines and began passing food items from hand to hand and packing them into the boxes prepared for that purpose. In all hundreds of parcels were prepared and by morning were making their way to families in need, thanks to the extraordinary efforts of the "Shoreshim" organisation.