NOTZAR THEATER, BAT-YAM, ISRAEL
A Post-documentary show of the reopening of a case that in our opinion should not have been closed: The killing of Muhammad Qudaih, a 70-year-old Palestinian resident who was holding a white flag.
In the summer of 2014, I was a criminal investigator in the Israeli Defense Forces, and I was sent to a team set up to investigate the events of the Operation in Gaza. After I was discharged from the service, that case was closed by the Military Prosecutor's Office without any legal proceedings being taken. A few years later, I saw him in front of me at a café: The soldier who shot the old man. At that moment I realized that I had not finished investigating this case.
About thirty more cases were closed that same way. The military materials are confidential, for now, and will likely remain so forever. Our investigation uses all those documents that were not defined as such: drawings, phone calls, Facebook correspondences, dreams dreamt at night, a cafe menu, and more. We must ask the question: What allows these cases to be closed time and again without any legal proceedings being taken?
Best Play Award ('Golden Hedgehog', 2022)
Running Time: 50 minutes
Translated by Nimrod Etzion
FITS Festival, Sibiu
FIST Festival, Sibiu
HEREBY
I DECLARE
by Roee Joseph & Noa Nassie
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Golden Hedgehog, 2022
Roee Joseph
Emerging independent theater creator who is inspired by space and believes in marginality. He is an M.A Student in the Program for Hermeneutics and Cultural Studies in Bar-Ilan university and an alumni of the Outstanding Program in Theatre Directing and Teaching at Kibbutzim College of Education, Arts and Technology (B.Ed.FA). He is also a Hebrew teacher in an elementary school. His production “Good morning Hedgehog” in TMU-NA theatre (2019) is a poetic documentary drama about a relationship that develops and crumbles, about the difficulty of speaking, about two ordinary people.
Noa Nassie
Independent creator and poet. Her work deals with the tension between the visual and literal language. She is an M.A student in the Bibliotherapy program at Haifa University, and an alumni of the Theatre Directing and Teaching (B.Ed.FA) and Scenography programs at Kibbutzim College of Education, Arts and Technology.
Asaf Sorek
Actor and an acting tutor. He is an alumni of the Kibbutzim College of Education, Technology and Arts, majoring in Acting. Asaf is the winner of scholarship competition for original creations. Among the latest plays he performed: “Sharif”, dealing with the struggles of the Palestinian LGBT community in Israel; “Ana Min El’Yahud”, dealing with the identity conflict of Jewish people with roots in Arab countries; “Game”, about military service and it’s impact on combat soldiers. Asaf served three years as a combat soldier in the IDF. He was recruited to the artillery corps special operations unit, and spent most of his military service at the border with Syria, during the Syrian civil war.
"You are being questioned about the circumstances of the killing of the Palestinian citizen Muhammad Tawfik Muhammad Kadih while he was carrying a white flag in his home in Khirbet Haze'a on July 25, 2014, during Operation Protective Edge. During the investigation, you have several rights: first of all, to know what incident you are being investigated for, and I explained that to you now. Do you understand?
Yes.
You also have the right to remain silent. It means you do not have to answer any question. But you better know that if you choose to remain silent, it can reinforce the weight of other evidence that we have against you. Do you understand that?
Yes I do.
Following what event did you come to this investigation?
Following the incident of the man with the white flag.
What is your connection to this event you named " the incident of the man with the white flag "?
I was the investigator of that file."
(A Part of the text of "Hereby, I Declare.")
Roee Joseph
Emerging independent theater creator who is inspired by space and believes in marginality. He is an M.A Student in the Program for Hermeneutics and Cultural Studies in Bar-Ilan university and an alumni of the Outstanding Program in Theatre Directing and Teaching at Kibbutzim College of Education, Arts and Technology (B.Ed.FA). He is also a Hebrew teacher in an elementary school. His production “Good morning Hedgehog” in TMU-NA theatre (2019) is a poetic documentary drama about a relationship that develops and crumbles, about the difficulty of speaking, about two ordinary people.
Noa Nassie
Independent creator and poet. Her work deals with the tension between the visual and literal language. She is an M.A student in the Bibliotherapy program at Haifa University, and an alumni of the Theatre Directing and Teaching (B.Ed.FA) and Scenography programs at Kibbutzim College of Education, Arts and Technology.
Asaf Sorek
Actor and an acting tutor. He is an alumni of the Kibbutzim College of Education, Technology and Arts, majoring in Acting. Asaf is the winner of scholarship competition for original creations. Among the latest plays he performed: “Sharif”, dealing with the struggles of the Palestinian LGBT community in Israel; “Ana Min El’Yahud”, dealing with the identity conflict of Jewish people with roots in Arab countries; “Game”, about military service and it’s impact on combat soldiers. Asaf served three years as a combat soldier in the IDF. He was recruited to the artillery corps special operations unit, and spent most of his military service at the border with Syria, during the Syrian civil war.
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