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Soccer-Israeli FA to discuss Palestinian ban call with FIFA, UEFA

By Ori Lewis

JERUSALEM, April 19 (Reuters) - Worried Israeli soccer chiefs are preparing to fight a Palestinian proposal to have their Football Association suspended from FIFA next month and will meet top officials in Switzerland in the coming week.

"Our understanding is that (Israel's suspension) will be put to a vote and we are preparing for it with everybody we need," Israeli FA (IFA) chief executive Rotem Kamer told Israel's Army Radio on Sunday.

He said the IFA was told that the Palestinian proposal would be on the agenda at the FIFA Congress in Zurich next month and he and IFA chairman, Ofer Eini, would discuss the matter with European soccer's governing body UEFA on Monday and senior officials at its world counterpart FIFA in a week's time.