Peace Now loses registrar's approval

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> Peace Now loses registrar's approval
> Dan Izenberg , THE JERUSALEM POST Feb. 11, 2008
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> The Registrar of Nonprofit Organizations has decided to withdraw the
> certificate of proper administration from the organization that provides
> funding for Peace Now, a Justice Ministry official said Monday.
>
> According to the official, the registrar, Yaron Keidar, recently conducted
> an in-depth examination of the nonprofit organization, known as Sha'al
> Educational Enterprises.
>
> The official added that Keidar found several problems involving the
> organization. The most serious was the fact that the aims of the
> organization, as it defined them, did not tally with the activities of
Peace
> Now, which is a political-ideological activist movement calling for a
> two-state solution along the 1967 Green Line boundaries. This is
> problematic, as it may lead to misrepresentation regarding what the money
of
> Sha'al's donors would be used for.
>
> The official added that unless Sha'al Educational Enterprises corrects the
> faults that Keidar discovered in his investigation, the organization would
> be
> dismantled.
>
> Peace Now Director-General Yariv Oppenheimer told The Jerusalem Post in
> response to the report that "we have been operating for 30 years under
these
> arrangements, and no one has ever found fault until now. Everything is
> transparent and nothing has changed. It seems that someone in the
> registrar's office, for political reasons, has decided to cause us harm. I
> hope the matter will be resolved quickly."
>
> It is possible that the investigation of Peace Now by the registrar was
> sparked by a petition filed in November by Aryeh King, a member of the
> Moledet Party and head of the self-styled Office for Public Complaints
> Regarding East Jerusalem.
>
> In his petition, King demanded that the High Court cancel petitions filed
by
> Peace Now because the movement is not a legal entity. The petitions he
> referred to call for dismantling the illegal outposts of Migron, Hayovel
and
> Haresha.
>
> King wrote in the petition that "Peace Now is a brand name used by the
> public and the media. It is not now, and never was, a legal entity. As a
> result, it should never have been allowed to have its day in court. It
> should furthermore be clarified that distinct from Peace Now, there is a
> registered nonprofit organization called 'Sha'al Educational
Enterprises.'"
>
> King charged that in the petition, Peace Now identified itself as "Peace
> Now - Sha'al Educational Enterprises," an entity that does not exist. He
> said Peace Now used that name to cover up the fact that it did not have
the
> right to petition the court.
>
> In its response to King's petition, Peace Now said it had added its own
name
> to that of Sha'al so that everyone would know who was behind the petitions
> regarding the illegal outposts, as the name Peace Now is universally
> recognized.
>
> Peace Now's lawyer, Michael Sfard, also pointed out that the High Court
had
> already rejected similar petitions filed by King in other cases involving
> Peace Now.
>
>
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