{"id":31035,"date":"2018-07-04T16:10:05","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T13:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/?p=31035"},"modified":"2018-07-04T16:46:03","modified_gmt":"2018-07-04T13:46:03","slug":"binyamin-regional-council-transferring-tens-millions-shekels-annually-political-ngos-illegal-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/binyamin-regional-council-transferring-tens-millions-shekels-annually-political-ngos-illegal-construction","title":{"rendered":"The Binyamin Regional Council: Transferring tens of millions of shekels annually to political NGOs and illegal construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following a Peace Now petition under the Freedom of Information Act, the Binyamin Regional Council was forced to disclose detailed information about the funds it provides to non-governmental organizations. The information shows that between 2013 and 2015, the Council distributed over NIS 65 million to various organizations. <strong>85% of the support funds (more than NIS 55 million) were transferred to political NGOs striving to affect public opinion and government bodies to support the settlements, and to Amana, which engages in illegal activity.<\/strong> Only 15% of the funds were transferred to other non-profit organizations that deal with welfare, education, sports, etc., in accordance with the regulations of the Ministry of Interior.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Mateh-Benyamin-Regional-Council_Report-3.pdf\"><strong>Click here to read the full report<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>These findings are also featured in an article by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/.premium-west-bank-council-gave-10m-to-group-that-sets-up-illegal-outposts-1.6242579\">Haaretz<\/a> on 4 July 2018.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31027\" src=\"http:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Binyamin-Council-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"670\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Binyamin-Council-1.png 670w, https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Binyamin-Council-1-161x52.png 161w, https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Binyamin-Council-1-330x107.png 330w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-31043\" src=\"http:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Binyamin-Council-2-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"705\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Binyamin-Council-2-1.png 811w, https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Binyamin-Council-2-1-161x148.png 161w, https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Binyamin-Council-2-1-768x705.png 768w, https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Binyamin-Council-2-1-330x303.png 330w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following a Peace Now petition under the Freedom of Information Act, the Binyamin Regional Council was forced to disclose detailed information about the funds it provides to non-governmental organizations. The information shows that between 2013 and 2015, the Council distributed over NIS 65 million to various organizations. 85% of the support funds (more than NIS&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/binyamin-regional-council-transferring-tens-millions-shekels-annually-political-ngos-illegal-construction\" title=\"Read The Binyamin Regional Council: Transferring tens of millions of shekels annually to political NGOs and illegal construction\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":29846,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2513,2511,16],"tags":[2510,3001,45,2825,2374],"class_list":["post-31035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-outposts-en","category-reports-en","category-settlement-watch","tag-amana","tag-binyamin-regional-council","tag-illegal-outposts","tag-outposts","tag-settlements"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31035"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31045,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31035\/revisions\/31045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}