Bashar Murkus, author and director of 'A Parallel Time", sits in Almidan theater during an interview, in the Israeli northern city of Haifa June 17, 2015. Israel froze state funding on Tuesday for an Arab theatre whose play about jailed Palestinians angered the right, fuelling accusations that the government aims to suppress productions it deems pro-Palestinian. Culture Minister Miri Regev, who has threatened to divert money from institutions seeking to "hurt the state", said that irregularities discovered in al-Midan theater's finances led to her decision to withhold government money. REUTERS/Nir Elias