The Yellow colours Maccabi Tel Aviv proudly wear today came about as sign of solidarity with the suffering of European Jewry during the Nazi era
Until the beginning of the 1940's, the colours worn by Maccabi Tel Aviv were blue and white. In 1942, at the suggestion of one of Maccabi Tel Aviv's players of the time, the late Yossef Merimovich, the colour yellow was adopted along with the traditional blue as a sign of solidarity with the Jews of Europe who were suffering the horrors of the Nazis and were forced to wear the infamous yellow star.
The stories of these horrors were "trickling" in to Israel and were a source of great pain to the Jewish community in Palestine, including the players of Maccabi Tel Aviv Football Club. The news of the "yellow star" awoke in many long hidden emotions and Merimovich's suggestion to adopt yellow along with blue as the team's colour found wide support among the club's management. Since then the colour yellow has been part and parcel of the Maccabi Tel Aviv Football Club and as much a part of its identity as the sport itself. Here is a second opportunity to view the video of the team's visit to the Holocaust Memorial Museum "Yad V'Shem" in Jerusalem this past winter.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG-vrg1Jrzw
