Ice: Abraham says he is afraid he may not be able to return home

Ice’s Hebrew report of 15 September 2026 recounts Yuval Abraham’s interview that day with Raviv Drucker on Channel 13. The headline quote, in Ice’s rendering, is that Israel is where he wants to live, that the place matters to him, that he is afraid he will not be able to return, and that he does not know what he would do abroad. Ice frames the appearance as a response to the international row over NAZA, to public criticism, and to the reception he expects. The comment thread under the article is not part of this briefing. This desk uses the on-air exchange Ice reports, and does not treat anonymous replies as a source.

Drucker, Ice writes, asked why the film does not show videos of captivity that Nukhba militants released during the war. Abraham’s answer, as Ice quotes it, is that he will say very clearly that the film deals with and presents the massacre of 7 October. The bottom line, he says, is that 24 soldiers are testifying to very serious acts. Those soldiers did not see the full film before they spoke, and there was no condition that they would. Drucker then asks whether the film should have compared Israel’s army with foreign armies facing a terror organisation inside a civilian population. Abraham answers that when Drucker makes a film about the war crimes in Gaza, which Abraham says Drucker has not done for three years, Drucker is invited to make that comparison.

Ice says the film claims the IDF committed genocide and war crimes in Gaza, and that Abraham and Rachel Szor have faced threats to their lives and talk of sanctions. Abraham tells the program he wants to come back and is afraid of an angry, violent crowd. He also says he deleted his social-media accounts the day before, which dates that decision to 14 September, the day the Guardian published Zohar’s expanded statement and Netanyahu’s video. On 10 September, in the Variety interview, he had said he saw no reason they should not return, while hoping the state would not retaliate. The Channel 13 interview is the later, narrower statement: the country is home, and he is no longer sure he can get there. Ice does not report a screening date in Israel. The Ynet petition of the same day asked for distribution there so a real argument could happen.

The interview belongs with the citizenship threat and the petition, not with the premiere reviews. Those entries are separated on https://nazafilm.org/record/timeline. Public defences of the directors are at https://nazafilm.org/record/defenders. Confirmed public screenings remain at https://nazafilm.org/showings, and the watch page is https://nazafilm.org/watch. The original report is Ice’s, in Hebrew.