The Tishreen Association will hold an event at its headquarters in the city of Tayibe to mark 'Nakba Day' tomorrow, which will be hosted by the left-wing Lochmim L’Shalom (Combatants for Peace) organization.
Pro-Palestinian organizations often hold 'Nakba Day events on May 15 to mourn the failure of the effort to destroy the nascent State of Israel in 1948.
Tishreen received NIS 142,050 in funding from the Israeli Culture and Sports Ministry in 2022. In 2021, the organization received NIS 134,235 from the Culture Ministry.
Section 3-b of the Budget Foundations Law authorizes the Finance Minister to reduce funding to an organization that carries out "activity that is contrary to the principles of the state," including by "commemorating Independence Day or the day of the establishment of the state as a day of mourning."
Shai Glick, the CEO of the B'Tzalmo organization, wrote to Culture and Sports Minister Miki Zohar to demand that he enforce the law by removing the Tishreen Association's funding.
"I would appreciate it if you instructed the staff of your ministry not to cooperate with this association and not to budget them a single penny, in accordance with the law," Glick wrote.
Minister Zohar did not respond to a request for comment.