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The second game between East Germany and Israel was a forfeit loss because Israel had not a correct handball hall. This was decided by executive committee of the IHF at the weekend 29–30 November 1969.
In Tel Aviv was only an outdoor small field handball place available and the hall in Kfar Giladi had not the official handball court dimensions of 20×40 meter.
The Israel Handball Association made a protest against the decision of the IHF. They said the dimensions were correct and on Tuesday two officials of the East Germany team and the two referees had no complains against the field. The Israelis said there were political reasons that the Germany didn't travel to Israel.
On 21 December 1969 the IHF rejected the protest.
In einer gemeinsamen Sitzung des Büros der IHF am 21. Dezember 1969 in Basel mit Vertretern Ostdeutschland und Israel wurde nach eingehender Beratung entschieden, daß das Rückspiel Israel – Ostdeutschland für die Endrundenqualifikation der Hallenhandball-Weltmeisterschaft 1970 wegen Nichterfüllung der technischen Voraussetzungen entsprechend dem geltenden WM-Reglement nicht stattfinden konnte und damit nicht gewertet wird. Ostdeutschland ist auf Grunde des regulären Vorspielergebinsses von 35:2 für die Endrunde der Weltmeisterschaft in Frankreich qualifiziert. Dem Protest von Israel konnte nicht stattgegeben werden.
In a joint meeting of the IHF office in Basel on December 21, 1969 with representatives of East Germany and Israel, it was decided after detailed consultation that the return leg Israel - East Germany for the final qualification of the 1970 Indoor Handball World Cup due to non-fulfillment of the technical requirements in accordance with the current World Cup Regulations could not take place and are therefore not evaluated. East Germany is qualified for the finals of the World Cup in France due to the regular lead win of 35: 2. The Israeli protest could not be accepted.
The USA submitted a protest in December after a research of a private investigator because the Canadian Eric Jacobsen is Danish and has not a passport from Canada. On 21 December 1969 the protest was rejected because of missing evidence by the IHF. In January the USA was able to prove the claimed and Canada was disqualified. Therefore the Spanish team should be the substitute. But they rejected because they have no time to build a good team again. On 28 January 1970 the former rival USA was taken as replacement.
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