Culture Minister Miri Regev has sent a sharp letter to her French counterpart, Francoise Nyssen, demanding that the French government remove its support from a play about the last hours of a terrorist who massacred Jews at a Jewish school in Toulouse. Regev also asked the minister to prevent the play from running at festivals or in any other framework.
The play, titled “I Love Death as You Love Life,” which premiered last week at the Festival of Avignon in southern France, is about the last three hours in the life of Mohammed Merah, the Islamist who in 2012 murdered three French soldiers before also murdering three children at a Jewish school in Toulouse, Myriam Monsonégo, and brothers Arié and Gabriel Sandler, along with the boys’ father, Yonathan Sandler.