Tiberias Reveals New Recording: 'I Don't See How They Get Out of This'

14.7.2026 / 16:28

In a conversation with the CEO of Hapoel Nof Hagalil, the association investigator is heard stating that he does not understand how the team will extricate itself from the affair: 'Lehav 433 are not really working yet'. The club intends to file a complaint with the police

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Ironi Tiberias released today (Tuesday) a recording of a conversation that it claims took place between football association investigator Dean Prager and Hapoel Nof Hagalil CEO Gil Baram, in which the investigator refers to the Tiberias affair.

Full transcription:

Gil: "What's up, star?"

Dean: "Ah, Gil, how are things my brother?"

Gil: "Tell me, is it you or 433?"

Dean: "Me! What are you talking about? About Omer Dahan or about Tiberias?"

Gil: "About Tiberias."

Dean: "Tiberias is me."

Gil: "What do you say?"

Dean: "433 are not really working yet..."

Gil: "That's two league drops."

Dean: "What is it?"

Gil: "A friend spoke to me, told me it's two league drops."

Dean: "Two league drops, you are in a good situation."

Gil: "Those are the plans now, to start preparing a budget."

Dean: "Let's put it this way, I don't see how they get out of this."

Gil: "How they, what?"

Dean: "Don't see how they get out of this."

Gil: "They can't get out of this. All, I have no doubt it was done in good faith."

Dean: "For the players yes, for the professional staff no."

Gil: "Really?"

Dean: "Yes, for sure."

Gil: "Unbelievable if told."

Mickey Beitan alongside Arie Klemenzon, owner of Ironi Tiberias/Bernie Ardov

Following that, the club stated: "Ironi Tiberias club responds with shock to the exposure of a new and shocking criminal corruption affair in Israeli football, the 'investigator in red' affair. The unequivocal recorded evidence exposed today casts a heavy and black shadow over all the investigations conducted by the 'D.P. Mor' investigation office on behalf of the Football Association.

"The owner of the investigation office and the lead investigator in the case, Dean Or Prager, was exposed in his own voice as blatantly disrupting an investigation, at an unprecedented level that borders deeply within the criminal realm. This is an investigator who, alongside frequent use of aggressive and controversial investigation methods, was also caught 'red-handed' leaking classified materials and confidential findings from an ongoing investigation to the CEO of a club that has an interest in the investigation, and instructing him to 'prepare budgets' based on 'results' of an investigation that has only just begun.

"Ironi Tiberias club demands an immediate, absolute and unequivocal halt to all the tainted and invalid investigation proceedings conducted by the office against the club and its players, and the immediate opening of an official and independent investigation into the collusion event between the investigator and Nof Hagalil CEO, Gil Baram.

"The new revelations prove that all the investigations by this investigator are tainted by foreign interests, prejudgment and extreme bias, which completely invalidates the legitimacy of his findings and actions. Ironi Tiberias club will not remain silent on this and will not settle for internal proceedings of the system that has failed. We have instructed the legal team to act immediately with all available means, and in the coming hours an urgent and official complaint will be filed with the Israel Police in order to bring about the filing of a criminal indictment against the corrupt investigator and against all those involved in the affair.

"Whoever sought to eliminate an entire football club using invalid methods behind the scenes will soon have to give a full criminal and public account of his actions".

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