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Settler council has continued funneling funds to NGO led by right-wing MK, despite ombudsman’s objection
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe Binyamin Regional Council has continued to funnel public funds to an NGO headed by Jewish Home MK Bezalel Smotrich, which earlier this year established an illegal outpost where the Amona wildcat community once stood. This funding came despite the fact that the state comptroller issued a report castigating the municipality and ordered it to halt such dealings, Haaretz reports.
The Hebrew daily reveals that the Binyamin Regional Council transferred NIS 300,000 ($82,610) to Horizon for Settlement in July 2018. In November 2017, State Comptroller Yosef Shapira expressed “grave concern” that the West Bank’s largest regional settlement council rigged tenders to award public funds to right-wing NGOs tied to Smotrich.
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