Knesset formally approves ban on funding of human rights associations law

Israeli Knesset endorsed officially, on Tuesday evening, in the final bill, "association", under which is committed to human rights organizations in Israel to report on the identity of foreign funders of the organization, in the case of most of the organization's budget funding finished. And it supported the new law, 57 deputies and 48 opposed it, and the law will be applied next year, and his law is the "Jewish Home Party," which placed drafted Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked has won the law on the support of the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, who said after the ratification, "the goal of the law is to prevent vain status quo, which would allow foreign countries to intervene Israel's internal affairs, by funding organizations. The minister said Shaked in its defense of the law, "Imagine if Israel has funded organizations in Britain in order to pressure them to emerge from the European Union, is impossible to allow a country like Britain step like this. "He attacked the opposition law parties, as some have described that the law targets human rights organizations, and pursuing those which the Israeli government slams in a legal way. She warned the MP Tzipi Livni, of the consequences of the law on Israel's reputation in the world, especially among the democratic countries. while I wondered the MP for "Yesh eated" party, Yael Grman, "Is the United States turned, Switzerland, Germany, France, and Britain to enemy states. In another criticism, leader of the "Meretz" the opposition party, Zahava Gal-On, said the law focuses on donations arriving from countries without addressing the individuals, noting that this situation is unacceptable, especially since donations from the second category of up-right organizations in abundance