Israeli army weighs legal action against NAZA film makers amid calls to revoke their citizenship

The Jewish Telegraphic Agency headline on this clip-file says the Israeli army is weighing legal action against the NAZA filmmakers while others call for their citizenship to be revoked. This page is our briefing, not a reprint of the JTA report.

Other items already logged here name the political chorus around Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor: Culture Minister Miki Zohar accused them of “treason against the state” and said he would move to revoke Israeli citizenship; Itamar Ben-Gvir called them a disgrace; Naftali Bennett used the phrase “blood libel”; Benjamin Netanyahu attacked what he called “global anti-Semitic incitement.”

Hebrew-language briefings on this site add a legal limit the JTA headline does not have to spell out: a culture minister cannot strip citizenship alone. Zohar asked Interior Ministry director-general Israel Ouzan to examine the couple and cited Citizenship Law 11(b)(2) on “breach of allegiance.” Other outlets note a court would still have to be involved.

The film those officials are answering is NAZA, which uses 24 military and intelligence testimonies. Deutsche Welle and the Jerusalem Post, as summarized here, both record that the IDF rejected the film’s claims and questioned anonymous sources.

Why it matters for Abraham, Szor, and this desk: the story is no longer only a Venice prize. It is whether a Guardian-produced documentary is met with army lawyers, revocation talk, and threats — and whether readers go to the original outlet instead of a pasted article.