The director of the Ashdod Performing Arts Center, Moti Malka, on Friday filed a complaint with the police against actor Roi Assaf, who on Thursday night stormed the stage during Culture Minister Miri Regev's speech at the Ophir Awards.
Assaf's actions were in protest of Regev having earlier left the auditorium when a poet by anti-Israel Arab ultranationalist poet Mahmoud Darwish was recited during the awards ceremony.
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