From the Liveblog of
Sunday, October 29, 2023
Interior minister asks to check if actor can be stripped of her citizenship for allegedly cheering Hamas assault
Interior Minister Moshe Arbel asks the Population and Immigration Authority to look into removing the citizenship of prominent Arab Israeli actor Maisa Abd Elhadi, who has been indicted for allegedly expressing support for Hamas after posting on social media celebrating the terror group’s October 7 massacre.
Abd Elhadi was indicted today on charges of identifying with a terror organization and incitement to terror, amid a wide police crackdown on Israelis allegedly expressing support for the attacks online.
It is unclear if Abd Elhadi holds residency rights or citizenship of another country, and whether it would be legally possible for her to be stripped of her Israeli citizenship.
Abd Elhadi “expressed words of praise and sympathy for the terrible act of terrorism, the worst in the country’s history, and even ridiculed one of the abductees, an 85-year-old woman who was abducted from her home in Gaza, as detailed in the indictment,” Arbel wrote, according to the Ynet news site.
Best known for her role in the 2013 film “World War Z,” as well as several Israeli TV shows, the actor was detained after sharing images on Instagram of Yaffa Adar, 85, being taken hostage by Hamas, along with laughing emojis.
Adar was one of at least 230 Israelis taken captive by terrorists on October 7 during their murderous rampage through southern Israel.
In a second post, Abd Elhadi shared an image of Hamas forces breaching Israel’s security border, with a caption reading “Let’s go, Berlin style,” in an apparent reference to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
