Recommendation 19

The Committee is very concerned about the impact of proposed anti-Non- Governmental Organisations legislation in the Knesset that would impose an 80% tax on foreign donations to Israeli and Palestinian Non-Governmental Organisations. Such a tax would be tantamount to blocking these Non- Governmental Organisations from carrying out grassroots peacebuilding 54 in Israel and the Occupied Palestinians Territories. The Government should lobby determinedly against this bill that acts against long term efforts to sustain peace. (Recommendation, Paragraph 98)