Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Thursday spoke out in support of the so-called “Transparency Law”, which would require Israeli NGOs who receive more than half their funding from foreign states to disclose their sources of funding and identify themselves as "foreign agents" when lobbying MKs.
"I do not understand how excessive transparency is anti-democratic. How is disclosure of funding from foreign governments undemocratic? I think this is an obvious requirement in any democracy," Netanyahu said in a meeting with foreign correspondents in Israel, responding to ongoing criticism of the law, particularly by the United States.
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