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Miki Zohar settles NAZA citizenship row with a seating chart

Miki Zohar's treason complaint against Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor has reportedly been forwarded to a banquet seating desk.

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Under warm chandeliers in a hotel ballroom during late-afternoon setup, two catering staff seen from behind push a round banquet table away from the stage.

The placecards moved on Thursday. Sources close to the situation say two cards bearing the names of Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor were lifted from a front table and carried, at a brisk clip, to a position twenty-six tables back, beside a service door and a tray stand.

Officials in Israel's culture ministry, which has spent the week accusing the Oscar-winning pair of treason over their Gaza documentary NAZA, have reportedly folded the whole matter into the awards-season calendar. Citizenship, one insider insists, is now being processed as a plus-one question.

"The treason file and the seating file are the same file," a person familiar with the ministry's awards strategy said. "We simply feel they would be more comfortable near the kitchen."

Whispers around the buffet suggest the minister's office has also requested a shorter walk-on, dimmer lighting and, if it can be arranged at this stage, no microphone at all.

Nobody has explained what happens to a passport that ends up on the wrong side of a dessert cart. Everybody has an opinion about the tablecloths.