Culture and Sports Minister Miri Regev on Sunday instructed the Director of Culture at her Ministry to establish a professional team that will examine concerns that the films shown at the “48mm” film festival, which has also come to be known as the “Nakba Film Festival”, do not violate Article 3 in the Budget Foundations Law, which stipulates that the State of Israel will not fund any artistic works that encourage incitement to racism and support an armed struggle against Israel.
"48 mm - The International Film Festival on Nakba and Return" is an annual film festival hosted by leftist organizations. “Nakba” is the word used by Palestinian Arabs to describe what they see as the "catastrophe" of the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948