Maccabi Tel Aviv's Under-13 "Bar Mitzvah" team, under the stewardship of coaches Ory David and Kobi Ozer, invited their Under-13 counterparts from Hapoel Youth Taibe, an Israeli Arab town near Kfar Saba, to play a friendly match at the Kiryat Shalom training ground. Apart from its athletic dimension, the purpose of the game was to send a clear message of mutual understanding and tolerance between the two diverse Israeli communities in which the youngsters and their trainers live. The match, which Maccabi won 4-1, was preceded by a small ceremony at which the Director of Football at the Maccabi Tel Aviv Youth Division, Nir Levin, spoke a few short words about the importance of bringing the two communities together in an atmosphere of tolerance and mutual understanding, with a view to ongoing co-operation between them in the areas of education and community relations.