Arab Israeli actor Ali Ali says he is tired of being cast as the villain, but took on Fauda’s new Hamas role after wrestling with typecasting, October 7 trauma and the price of being an Arab performer in IsraelTehiya Barak|Actor Ali Ali is tired of playing terrorists. He is a family man from Acre, a theater actor, a juggler and a high school drama teacher. He describes himself as a positive person who wants good. Yet again and again, he is cast as the bad guy, or, as they would say on Fauda, “a dog, son of a dog.”In Magav, he played the head of an Arab crime organization. In Tahrir, he played a radical sheikh and leader of the Muslim Brotherhood. In the film The Hillula, he played a kidnapper from Gaza. Now, in the fifth season of Fauda, he was asked to play a Nukhba terrorist. This time, he says, it felt like too much.5 View gallery Ali Ali (Photo: Gil Nehushtan)“It started well,” he recalls. “My agent told me they wanted me for the fifth season of Fauda and that I should choose a character and audition for it. I chose Salem, a bereaved father whose son was murdered in the Gaza border communities by Nukhba terrorists, and who wants revenge.”And then what happened after the audition?