Several leading film professionals who withdrew their films from Culture Minister Miki Zohar’s new alternative awards ceremony have agreed to reverse their decision and take part in the Tuesday event, the group said in a statement Sunday.

Zohar set up the alternative ceremony to the Ophir Awards and threatened to cut funding from the industry over prizes handed out to films accused of being pro-Palestinian and casting the IDF in a negative light.

The eight nominees — director Erez Tadmor, actresses Irit Kaplan and Nur Fibak, cinematographer Amit Yasur, screenwriter Mindi Ehrlich, screenwriter Yoav Shutan-Goshen, and editors Einat Glazer-Zarhin and Ilana Reina — said they were convinced by senior producer and Israel Prize laureate Moshe Edery to reconsider their intended boycott of Zohar’s event.

Edery promised to work with the culture minister to ensure continued funding for the film industry.

“Out of genuine concern for the future of Israeli cinema, and following conversations with producer Moshe Edery who promised us that he is personally working with the culture minister to........

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