" Fundamentals of Finance – Amendment No. 40 ", sometimes referred to as the Nakba Law, is a 2011 Israeli law which received criticism for limiting freedom of speech pertaining to the founding of Israel and the Nakba . The law affects organizations which are funded, in whole or in part, by the government.
8-453: The law authorizes the Minister of Finance to withhold a limited amount of state funds from any government-funded institution or body that commemorates "Israel's Independence Day or the day on which the state was established as a day of mourning", or that denies the existence of Israel as a "Jewish and democratic state." The amount of state funds withheld is related to the amount of money spent on
16-532: A BA in education and an MA in Public Policy. For the 2006 Knesset elections he was placed tenth on the Yisrael Beiteinu list, and became a Knesset member when the party won 11 seats. During his first term he chaired the subcommittee for alternative energy sources. Moved down to fifteenth on the party's list for the 2009 elections , Miller barely retained his seat as Yisrael Beiteinu won 15 seats. For
24-736: A member of the Knesset for Yisrael Beiteinu from 2006 until 2013 and again from 2014 until 2015. He is currently chairman of the Histadrut division for work with repatriates and interaction with national institutions, chairman of the Board of Directors of the educational network "Amal" and a member of the board of directors of the Company of Culture and Sports Centers. Born in Moscow , Soviet Union (now Russia ), Miller made aliyah to Israel on 29 January 1992. He gained
32-540: The 2013 elections he was placed 33rd on the joint Likud Yisrael Beiteinu list, and lost his seat as the alliance won only 31 seats. However, he returned to the Knesset on 6 August 2014 as a replacement for Carmel Shama , who resigned after becoming Israel's envoy to the OECD . He was placed eleventh on the party's list for the 2015 elections , losing his seat when the party was reduced to six seats. On 18 January 2021 Miller
40-468: The Israel Democracy Institute , as an infringement of freedom of expression. In 2019, Tel Aviv University cancelled a lecture by the politician Ofer Cassif , citing the law as the reason. This was the first instance of an academic institution heeding this law. Alex Miller (politician) Alex Miller ( Hebrew : אלכס מילר , born 4 April 1977) is an Israeli politician who served as
48-585: The Israeli government. It declares that the Minister of Finance is authorized to withhold transfer of state funds, if the primary goal of the funds spent was to do one of the following: The decision of the law was criticised by the human rights organisation Human Rights Watch and the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression , Frank William La Rue also by Israeli NGOs like
56-505: The event was reduced to three times of the amount at the suggestion of David Rotem (Yisrael Beiteinu). Thirty-seven members of the Knesset voted in favor of the law, and twenty-five voted against at the third reading of the Law. 58 out of 120 MKs did not show up for the vote, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu . The law affects organizations which are funded, in whole or in part, by
64-520: The event, capped at three times the amount of money spent. The law was first proposed in 2008 by Alex Miller from the nationalistic party Yisrael Beiteinu , and preliminarily approved by the Ministerial Committee for Legislation on May 24, 2009. The proposal was rejected and sent to the Committee for Constitution, Law, and Justice for revision, where the proposed fine of ten times of the cost of
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