Culture Minister Miri Regev (Likud) said Tuesday that the compromise between her office and the Al Maidan Theater was forced upon her by the Legal Advisor to the Government / Attorney General. The Arab-owned theater caused outrage when it performed a play that glorifies Walid Daka, the terrorist who abducted and cruelly murdered 19-year-old IDF soldier Moshe Tamam in 1984.
Regev was forced to renew funding of the theater, ten months after she suspended it. The theater has, meanwhile, undergone a change in management, after its previous owner aroused Regev's anger when he refused to perform in Judea and Samaria.