Culture and Sports Minister Miri Regev decides not to ask Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon to impose a fine on the Tel Aviv Cinematheque over the cinema’s plans to hold a festival of films dedicated to the Naqba and Palestinian refugees, Haaretz reports.
“Since examining the concern arose that the Naqba festival violates financing laws was not completed last year and since our ministry received additional complaints regarding the films shown at the festival this year, Minister Regev instructed that a professional team watch the movies and give its professional opinion” on them, the ministry says in a statement.
Some films in the festival indeed present “content that besmirches” the character of the State of Israel but “not to the point of violating financing laws,” the statement says.
Regev earlier wanted Kahlon to fine the cinema based on Clause 3B of the Budget Law, which mandates that the finance minister can fine institutions promoting shows or performances encouraging incitement, racism or support of armed struggle against the State of Israel.
Minister of Culture and Sports Miri Regev on August 31, 2015. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)
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