The Film Censorship Board has decided to permit the continued screening of a controversial Israel-made film about alleged commercial exploitation of memorials to fallen soldiers but agreed to some minor cuts. Deputy Defense Minister Mordechai Zipori had asked the Board to reconsider its license to the film, said to be based on a true incident. Titled, “The Vulture”, the film deals with a memorial volume published on behalf of the bereaved family of a fallen soldier. The poems and articles contained in the volume turn out not to have been written by the dead youth though the publisher claimed they were. Families of dead soldiers protested when the film opened at a local cinema.
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