Can Canadian Jewish billionaire Mitchell Goldhar give a lesson on morality to Israeli soccer players and to Israeli soccer in general? Can he set the standard of behavior for them?

In an unusual step for the local sport, Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer club owner Goldhar suspended two members of his team (whose names cannot be released). The two players are suspected of engaging in sex with two 15-year-old girls.

The two players met the girls at a birthday party for another player. They claim the girls deceived them by claiming to be older, and even showed them evidence of their “age,” though they may have used fake indentification. The girls deny all of this. One of them even claims that the players took turns during sex with her, even though she did not give her consent.

WhatsApp messages found on the players’ cellphones indicate that this was not the only time something like this happened, and that other players from their team — and from other teams, too — were involved in exchanging information about young girls, some of them minors, for purposes of sex.