Let’s put it this way, I have been rooting for Maccabi longer than I even know myself! I had a dream that I wanted to make a Maccabi tattoo on my whole body after I was released from the army. I went to a tattoo parlor but then I was afraid to do it because it just really wasn’t me. So I thought about what else could I do in place of a tattoo and I came up with doing Spiderman makeup in Yellow & Blue and since then I’ve been known as the Yellow Spider.

About 8 years ago I began to get tired very easily and I couldn’t understand as I am such a active person and I also worked out my entire life. But I started feeling worse and worse and during one of the blood tests I did they saw that there was an issue. They thought it was perhaps lymphoma so they sent me to another place for further tests until they understood that it was scarcoidosis. Know one knows how I contracted it but it is a type of lung disease that affects the whole body.

Unfortunately my case is very serious and I have pain 24 hours a day that never goes away. My physical ability is poor today and my wife helps me as I am in bed for the better part of each day. It’s not easy and I have to work very hard, every day, every hour and every minute. Maccabi is a huge part of my soul and it’s part of my therapy. It’s the most amazing and strongest medicine that one can have. Once I found out that I had this disease it took me a couple of weeks to say to myself that I have to deal with it, there’s nothing I can do and I’ll do the best as I possibly can.

Maccabi Tel Aviv heals the soul and when I go to a match it gives me so much energy and treatment that my soul needs. People who are in my situation can understand what I feel when I go to see Maccabi and that is also true for those who are healthy. People that have Maccabi in their blood know how it can heal the soul. It’s emotion and amazing energy. It’s the goosebumps that are all over the body, it’s the soul, all in the soul.

If we don’t know how to take care of our soul it doesn’t matter if you are healthy or ill. The most important thing is to have a healthy soul. That’s the best medicine one can have.