Israeli’s Education Minister removes state support for controversial play about Palestinian prisoner and convicted murderer

• The play, A Parallel Time, has been produced by Arab theater Al-Midan in Haifa and features a story centered on the prison experience of Walid Daka, an Arab Israeli convicted of abducting and murdering an Israeli soldier in 1984.
• A ministerial committee twice approved the play as part of the Ministry’s initiative to bring the arts and culture to Israeli schoolchildren, but Naftali Bennett, the Education Minister, accused the play of promoting tolerance of terrorists.
• The theater has indicated that it will appeal the decision to the High Court of Justice, citing violation of free expression.

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