in order to continue football activities, the Beitar management decided on temporary renaming of Beitar clubs to Nordia (named after Max Nordau).
Beitar revealed that Seltzer's grandfather was Jewish and hoped that he would be able to gain Israeli citizenship via the Law of Return.
Born in Brisk, Poland in 1906, in 1927 he joined Beitar, the youth branch of the political Zionist Revisionist movement.
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Born in Chernivtsi, Ukraine in 1911, he was the local Beitar officer.
The unorthodox name of the team (no association, i.e. Hapoel, Maccabi, Beitar etc.) is the result of the union of two city rivals, Hapoel Ashdod and Maccabi Ironi Ashdod.
During their spell in Liga Artzit, they played at the Municipal Stadium in Nahariya, in which they shared with Hapoel Nahariya, Beitar Nahariya.
In the 2009–10 season, Shum returned as Beitar Jerusalem manager, alongside the new assistant manager David Amsalem.