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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Politics
Eliyahu Freedman

‘Civil society killer’: Israel tax bill threatens to silence NGOs

The backers of a proposed bill that would heavily tax foreign-funded NGOs have cited the need to defend Israel's sovereignty. [Mahmoud Illean/AP]

A draft bill that threatens to impose a 65 percent tax on foreign government donations to Israeli and Palestinian civil society organisations has been criticised in Israel and internationally ahead of being presented to the government’s Ministerial Committee on Legislation.

The proposed bill has been a legislative priority for the government since Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party formed a coalition with hardline and ultra-Orthodox parties at the end of last year.

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