Knesset votes down proposal to probe funding of leftist NGOs
Source: hartez Following a stormy debate, the Knesset voted yesterday against a contentious proposal to investigate funding sources for human rights organizations in Israel. A majority of 57 MKs voted against the two bills, proposed by Yisrael Beiteinu MK Faina Kirshenbaum and Likud MK Danny Danon; 28 voted in favor of the proposal to set up two parliamentary inquiry panels to investigate NGOs. The vote followed a fierce Knesset debate in which 53 Knesset members asked to take the podium. Kirshenbaum, who sponsored the first bill, opened the debate. "We all feel there's a problem, so I proposed setting up a parliamentary investigation committee. I want to look into it," she said. "You are the problem," MK Nitzan Horowitz (Meretz ) shouted at her. "When we understand what the problem is," Kirshenbaum continued, "we'll find the right way to solve it. What are you afraid of? Me? Of transparency?" Horowitz blasted Kirshenbaum,