Monday, December 10, 2018

Left supports PM's push for law to reveal anonymous donors - Yehuda Shlezinger


by Yehuda Shlezinger

Meretz head Tamar Zandberg plans to sponsor a bill requiring all ‎nonprofit organizations to make their donor lists ‎public


Meretz Chairwoman Tamar Zandberg ‎
Photo: Oren Ben Hakoon 

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's recent initiative to ‎promote a bill that would compel nonprofit ‎‎‎organizations involved in political election campaigns to make donor lists public gained traction Sunday, as left-wing party Meretz said it would promote similar legislation as well.

Coalition insiders said that the prime minister was ‎concerned that foreign ‎donors, who reportedly plan ‎to spend millions on campaigns aimed at ‎convincing ‎the public to vote him out of office, would partner ‎with various nonprofit ‎organizations to conceal their meddling.

Legislation requiring nonprofit organizations to be fully transparent aims to prevent that, the ‎sources said. ‎

Meretz Chairwoman Tamar Zandberg said Sunday that ‎her party would similarly sponsor a bill requiring all ‎nonprofit organizations to make their donor lists ‎public.‎

She said that the party seeks to fight the anonymous ‎funding granted to right-wing associations such as ‎Im Tirtzu, which participate in election campaigns ‎without disclosing the nature of their financial ‎resources. ‎

‎"We expect Im Tirtzu‎ to be the first to release its ‎‎donor list," Zandberg ‎said‎. ‎ The New Israel Fund, which has been consistently vilified by the prime minister and his colleagues for intervening in political matters, said it would gladly cooperate ‎with such a demand.‎

‎"The time has come for all nonprofit organizations ‎in Israel to expose their donor lists. A reality in ‎which the nature of the vast majority of donations ‎to right-wing organizations remains a secret ‎is scandalous and must be rectified by law," the NIF ‎said in a statement.‎


Yehuda Shlezinger

Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/2018/12/10/left-supports-pms-push-for-legislation-exposing-anonymous-donors/

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