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Israeli Soccer Player Manor Solomon Signs With Leeds United on Season-Long Loan Deal
Manor Solomon of Tottenham during the Premier League match at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, London, England, 30th September 2023. Photo: David Klein / Sportimage via Reuters
Leeds United confirmed on Tuesday that Israeli soccer player Manor Solomon has joined the English soccer team on a season-long loan deal from the Premier League side Tottenham Hotspur.
Solomon, who was born in a Sephardic Jewish family in Israel, will wear the number 14 jersey for Leeds United. He began his professional soccer career with the Israeli Premier League soccer team Maccabi Petah Tikvah in 2017. Two years later he was signed by the Ukrainian soccer team Shakhtar Donetsk. He helped the Ukrainian club win the Ukrainian Premier League twice, as well as the Ukrainian Cup and the Ukrainian Super Cup. He also competed in the UEFA Champions League, the top soccer competition in Europe – during his three seasons with Shakhtar, and became the the youngest Israeli to score in the UEFA Champions League when he scored a goal in Shakhtar’s group-stage game against Atalanta in October 2019.
“I am really happy to be here,” said Solomon, 25, who is the sixth player to be signed this summer by Leeds United. “I’ve heard a lot about the club, about its fans, about the heritage, the history. I know it’s a massive club in England and I’m looking forward to seeing the fans and to meet them all.”
“As soon as the interest from Leeds came, I started to look for the players, for the coach and I’ve spoken with the manager and he explained to me about the style of playing, about the players that there are in Leeds,” Solomon added. “I know there is a group of great lads, young people with great desire, with great techniques and I’m looking forward to playing with them and to help them in the best way I can. I just want to get going.”
In July 2022, after fleeing Ukraine at the start of the country’s war with Russia, Solomon moved to the west London side Fulham on a season-long loan deal from Shakhtar. He made 24 appearances and scored five goals in five consecutive games while playing for Fulham. He was also nominated for the Premier League’s Player of the Month award.
Solomon joined Tottenham Hotspur as a forward on a five-year deal in July 2023. His last season was cut short in September due to an injury but he returned to play for the Spurs in pre-season earlier this summer. Solomon said this week, “now I am fit and I’m ready to go, I’m ready to show myself again.”
“I’m ready to go back to the biggest levels again and hopefully we’ll have a great season here at Leeds,” he said. “We have one goal and everyone knows our goal, hopefully we’ll do it together.”
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Rights Group Files Lawsuit to Block Trump Deportations of Anti-Israel Protesters
Marco Rubio speaks after he is sworn in as Secretary of State by US Vice President JD Vance at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, DC, Jan. 21, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) filed a lawsuit challenging as unconstitutional the Trump administration’s actions to deport international students and scholars who protest or express support for Palestinian rights.
The lawsuit, filed on Saturday in the US District Court for the Northern District of New York, seeks a nationwide temporary restraining order to block enforcement of two executive orders signed by US President Donald Trump in the first month of his term.
The lawsuit comes after the detention of a Columbia University student, Mahmoud Khalil, a 30-year-old permanent US resident of Palestinian descent, whose arrest sparked protests this month.
Justice Department lawyers have argued that the US government is seeking Khalil’s removal because Secretary of State Marco Rubio has reasonable grounds to believe his activities or presence in the country could have “serious adverse foreign policy consequences.” Rubio on Friday said the United States will likely revoke visas of more students in the coming days.
Trump vowed to deport activists who took part in protests on US college campuses against Israel’s war on Hamas in Gaza following the October 2023 attack by the Palestinian terrorists.
The ADC lawsuit was filed on behalf of two graduate students and a professor at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, who say their activism and support of the Palestinian people “has put them at serious risk of political persecution.”
“This lawsuit is a necessary step to preserve our most fundamental constitutional protections. The First Amendment guarantees the freedom of speech and expression to all persons within the United States, without exception,” said Abed Ayoub, national executive director of the ADC.
Chris Godshall-Bennett, the group’s legal director, said the litigation seeks immediate and long-term relief “to protect international students from any unconstitutional overreach that stifles free expression and deters them from fully engaging in academic and public discourse.”
The lawsuit centers on three Cornell University plaintiffs: a British-Gambian national and PhD student with a student visa; a US citizen PhD student working on plant science; and a US citizen novelist, poet, and professor in the Department of Literatures in English.
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Netanyahu Informs Shin Bet Chief to Vote on His Dismissal Next Week
Israel’s Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar speaks at Reichman University in Herzliya on Sunday, September 11, 2022. Photo: Screenshot
i24 News – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Ronen Bar, the head of the Shin Bet security agency, that he will bring a vote before his government to dismiss him next week.
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Houthis Claim to Attack US Aircraft Carrier, Retaliating for Strikes
Newly recruited fighters who joined a Houthi military force intended to be sent to fight in support of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, march during a parade in Sanaa, Yemen, Dec. 2, 2023. Photo: REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah
i24 News – The Houthis claimed on Sunday that they targeted the aircraft carrier USS Harry Truman and other vessels in the northern Red Sea with 18 ballistic and cruise missiles and a drone. Military spokesperson Yahya Saree said that the US-led attacks against the Houthis on Saturday comprised of more than 47 airstrikes on seven governorates, with the death toll expected to rise.
“The Yemeni Armed Forces will not hesitate to target all American warships in the Red Sea and in the Arabian Sea in retaliation to the aggression against our country,” Saree said, vowing the Houthis “will continue to impose a naval blockade on the Israeli enemy and ban its ships in the declared zone of operations until aid and basic needs are delivered to the Gaza Strip.”
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