Mazen Ghanayim, chairman of the Bnei Sakhnin soccer team, is attacked by some of the team’s fans after it lost 3:0 to S.C. Ashdod at Doha, Bnei Sakhnin’s home court. In 2003 Bnei Sakhnin acceded to the Premier League, and it was the first Arab soccer team to win the National Cup, doing so under the management of Ghanayim, a well-liked and affable person, and exceptional in the landscape of Israeli soccer. At the end of the 2006 season, after playing in the Premier League for three seasons, Bnei Sakhnin dropped down to the National League.