(live here) – The Haifa International Film Festival, which is associated with culture and cinema, became a politically charged arena when Culture Minister Miki Zohar went up to give a speech and had to face loud boos from the audience. The recorded speech of the country's president Yitzhak Herzog was also met with deafening boos. The event, which took place against the background of the tense security situation and when 100 abductees languished in the Hamas tunnels, reflected the pain and polarization that divides Israeli society at this time.
boos during the recorded speech of the president of the country
The public anger did not stop at the meat of the culture. The president who sent a recorded speech as part of the event was also treated similarly. The audience's reaction illustrated the impatience towards any message that seems distant from the harsh reality that accompanies the people.
The president broadcast a recorded message and this to deafening boos, especially when he spoke about the unity of the people and the release of the kidnapped.
The speech of the minister of culture: boos as a response to public pain
Miki Zohar, Minister of Culture in the Netanyahu government, came to address an audience at the Haifa Film Festival. But the words he had carefully prepared were drowned out by the shouts and boos of an angry audience, who did not hide their frustration. The protest erupted out of deep pain: the ongoing war, the abductees remaining in the Hamas tunnels, and the increasingly dim hope for their release.
Miki Zohar continued his speech, but the loud chants deafened the ears and finally he went backstage and left the hall.
Polarization in Israeli society: a crisis that deepens day by day
The event at the festival is just another expression of the intense polarization that divides Israeli society. When the war goes on endlessly, the abductees do not return, the ultra-orthodox refuse to enlist and receive backing for their actions from the government, when prices rise and the budget flows to disputed areas, the tension between sections of the people grows, and the differences in worldviews seem irreconcilable. The feeling of frustration and despair permeates every corner, from private conversations to public stages like the film festival.
Again proud to be Haifai. The #Tin Likud government has been asking for this city for years, which has never had a Likud mayor elected, and therefore Miri Regev's "diamond tactics" hit it hard. Now, in light of their position in the polls, the Likud and its activists are crawling to Haifa and collecting votes without any choice.
The behavior of some of the audience was vile, humiliating and vile, anti-cultural, anti-human - the furthest thing from everything I look for in quality cinema.
The contempt they whistled comes back to them. They disgrace themselves, the festival and the city of Haifa. Not Minister Zohar, who I appreciate for his standing in the face of this hostile and vile crowd, while he calls for unity in the nation and does not respond in the same currency to these despicable people.
I don't know where the festival management was and what they did about it.
I always attend the festival, this year I'm taking a step back. I just don't feel like watching movies around such poor, beastly and vile people, in a frame where if she didn't act against this humiliation she is no less responsible for it.
Stupidity or naivety?
As if Lapid Golan and Kasif were the government, the abductees would return.
In a left-wing government, we would also be defeated militarily, and our abductees would not be returned to us.
tired of words and speeches,
The majority of the sane people want the government that was elected by the majority of votes, I did not choose it,
Be honest!!!
Be proud of the IDF!
Proud of the good people who donate their time, body and family to help those in need.
That the people chosen will be an example and role model for the general public.
That they stop wrapping Binyamin Netanyahu and protecting him because in the end they are just a tool in his hands and they are of no interest to him.
What interests him is himself and his family members.
How can they not see this, it is completely transparent.
It is very sad that this is how people behave.
Lucky that it's only a rattlesnake minority that hasn't sobered up yet and the majority of the people are right-wing.
Cain also hated Abel because God loved him...and gave him out of his grace.
Pearl beauty
Eyal Habibi,
Nice to see you complaining about "hate filled seniors".
I see you commenting here wherever possible in your refined style, and in my opinion, you are entitled to claim a lifetime achievement award for grumpiness, venom and hatred.
Because that's 100 percent who you are
A detached bodyguard of rich and pampered Carmelites with luxury cars and apartments that they have rented and let us rent in Oshek, the young people sit all day in Tibi and Mandarin and the others spend whole mornings whipping up poison against the government and Bibi and waiting for this week's event, a casual demonstration at the intersections
You will find normal occupations. Your old age puts your youth to shame. Once against vaccinations, once against the extermination of pigs, once against reform, once against the ultra-orthodox. Only the excuses change..
Happily, Haifa has always been a city whose residents are politically aware with a social agenda and civic activism.
It is good that even within the framework of the festival a way was found to express a clear opinion about the government of hypocrisy, crime and destruction and those who stand at its head - the bearers of personal responsibility for the processes of dismantling Israel as a democracy.
Every servant, supporter, every partner in the government of destruction knew who was not invited to this city.
I wonder if this is how you will register if one day a left-wing government is formed here and its friends and ministers will be excluded and expelled from every platform of right-wing viewers/audiences?
And regarding the Saifa of your response..almost half of the Haifaites are among the supporters of this government and thousands more people with similar opinions who visit the city every day from different parts of the country,
Are they also not "invited" to this city?
Against the background of the usual general hatred in Haifa.
No connection to the abductees.
The Haifa people are known for free hatred, always have been.
Grumpy old people, getting old, full of hate.
These are the rich with budget pensions and full pockets to blow hundreds of shekels at film festivals
Cultural members came to interrupt the snarling.
The ugliness of the company's face with the dull ends of the hair
For a whole year they dismantled the company in hateful demonstrations
and continue with new excuses throughout the war.
Miki Zohar is not the worst of meats. There are many other contenders for this title.
But he represents the most terrible government in Israel's history, which destroys everything here, and makes our children leave.
This is how the audience's reaction should be understood.
I will boycott the ceremony in his place. After all, neither the war nor the captives are of interest to the Tishmalani of Haifa, it's Bibi and the Right, but let the Likud and the Right explode, and they will remain here forever and the Tishmalani of Haifa. People without respect and without values will continue to bark, I despise them
The Bibists, the Hill Boys and the Haredim will stay here, but in front of them and in a large majority, the Arabs will stay and rule here....
Go watch Channel 14 and convince yourself that you care about the abductees.
Prefers "bibists" over the moss of the misanthropic extreme left in the style of the Yealonim.