Is Maccabi an Arab club then? I'd always thought of all teams being Jewish for some reason.
Like with all other things in Israel, Maccabi are the Right-wing Likud followers and Hapoel are Left-wing Labour. Its always Left -v- Right unless an Arab team is playing.
When I worked our there, Betar Jerusalem (another Right-wing Jewish club) and Bnei Sakhnin (Arab club) had a few tasty meetings with fights and riot police called