Two brothers of Scandar Copti, director of the film Ajami, have been arrested for assaulting police officers in Jaffa on Saturday. One brother, Tony, was production manager for the filming and also played a small part. Ajami has been nominated for an Oscar as Best Foreign Language Film.
Israel National News reported last October that one of the actors in the film, Eran Naim, was a former policeman who lost his job following his conviction for police brutality against demonstrators passively resisting the 2005 expulsion of all ethnic Jews from the Gaza region. In May 2007, Naim was convicted of violently assaulting a young demonstrator named Akiva Vitkin following the release of a video of the incident filmed by INN camera man Tuvia Lerner.
Israel National News reported last October that one of the actors in the film, Eran Naim, was a former policeman who lost his job following his conviction for police brutality against demonstrators passively resisting the 2005 expulsion of all ethnic Jews from the Gaza region. In May 2007, Naim was convicted of violently assaulting a young demonstrator named Akiva Vitkin following the release of a video of the incident filmed by INN camera man Tuvia Lerner.