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Story Highlights and Impact 2023

Extreme Israeli S homrim’s joint investigation with the Associated Press (AP)
Group Takes news agency revealed that the Israeli nonprofit organization
Root in US with “Shalom Esreich” that financially supports the murderer of Prime
Fundraising Bid Minister Yitzhak Rabin, the murderer of a Palestinian family in
2015, the murderer of a girl at a Gay Pride Parade in Jerusalem
Uri Blau in 2015, and other Jews convicted of nationalist crimes, is raising
funds in the United States. The American donations are tax-
Amiram Ben-Uliel is brought deductible in the US, meaning that the American government
for a verdict in the case of indirectly subsidizes these contributions. The article, published
the 2015 arson attack, which in AP, was picked up by over 100 international media outlets.
killed a Palestinian toddler and In Israel, it was published in leading media including: Calcalist,
his parents in the West Bank Ynet, Haaretz, Jerusalem Post and The Times of Israel.
village of Duma.
Photo by: Reuters Impact: Following the publication of the investigation,
the World of Tzedeka organization, a registered 501(c)3
organization in the United States that serves as a pipeline
for transferring donations to a number of nonprofits in
Israel, and through which donations were transferred to
Shalom Esreich, announced that it would stop transferring
donations to the organization.

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