Revital Hovel (Haaretz)

Disabled Ping Pong Player Yael Elbag Banned for Playing on Yom Kippur

The Israel Sports Association for the Disabled banned a table tennis player from representing Israel for two years, saying that she played in a tournament last Yom Kippur. Yael Elbag, in her fifties, was accused of participating in a doubles match on the Day of Atonement, thus ignoring a Culture and Sports Ministry directive banning…