Israel’s Culture Minister Threatens to Revoke the Citizenship of ‘NAZA’ Filmmakers

overhauled Israel's film financing system to redirect public funds away from independent or arthouse films addressing sensitive political topics, focusing instead on movies with higher commercial box-office potential. Zohar described the changes as moving "our money from films that Israel haters love to films that Israelis love," declaring "an end of the era where Israeli soldiers are blackened at the expense of Israeli citizens." Zohar accelerated these reform plans