Oren Hazan winning in Knesset backgammon competition compelling coexistence
Lady Luck was on Likud MK Oren Hazan’s side Tuesday when he won a Knesset’s first-ever backgammon tournament, designed to foster coexistence between Jews and Arabs. Hazan kick out MK Omer Bar-Lev (Zionist Union) in a finals.
The contest was orderly by MK Zouheir Bahloul (Zionist Union), an Arab-Israeli, to foster coexistence, with a assistance of a classification “Kulna Yerushalayim,” “Jerusalem Double.”
Along a highway to his championship, Hazan delivered knockout blows to complicated hitters in a Knesset, including Knesset Interior Committee authority David Amsalem, who pronounced afterward, “I don’t know what happened, a bones didn’t work.”
Hazan pronounced after a event, “They can not better us in ideology, in a plenum and not in elections. we do not know what caused them to consider they can better us in backgammon, and we usually have to say— Rinati, we have brought a championship home,” referring to his wife.
The contest also featured an intriguing matchup between MK Amir Peretz (Zionist Union) and Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein (Likud). After a event, Peretz posted on Twitter, “It’s been 30 years given we final played backgammon, though for a consequence of coexistence, we gladly supposed a plea of opening a contest opposite Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein. we wish that a suggestion of competition and a certain among us will impact all Knesset activity.”
אמנם עברו כבר 30 שנה מאז הפעם האחרונה שיצא לי לשחק שש-בש, אבל למען הדו-קיום נעניתי בשמחה לאתגר לפתוח את הטורניר מול יו״ר הכנסת יולי אדלשטיין.
הלוואי שהרוח הספורטיבית והחיובית ביננו תשרה על כל פעילות הכנסת. תודה לזוהיר בהלול ודודי אמסלם על היוזמה היפה! pic.twitter.com/WlkhMSfj6A
— עמיר פרץ (@amirperetz) January 30, 2018
Edelstein won a strife of titans though late before a final so as to equivocate a matchup with Hazan.
Hazan has done a name for himself with a prolonged history of ardent behavior, generally toward those with whom he does not agree, including confronting families of Palestinian terrorists in Dec and accusations of passionate harassment in Knesset for inapt comments destined during womanlike MKs in November. His biggest explain to fame, however, was his barbarous stolen selfie with United States President Donald Trump.
“We play backgammon in a Knesset since we trust that Jerusalem is a city of everyone, Arabs and Jews, and we contingency work for equivalence between easterly and west Jerusalem, since backgammon teaches us that blacks and whites are equal and everybody has accurately a same chance,” a organizers pronounced after a event.
Arik Bender/Maariv contributed to this report