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Turning Public Support into Policy Change

We work across diverse domains, including the Israeli parliament, government ministries, regulatory bodies and beyond.
Our purpose is simple: to advance the issues prioritized by Lobby 99’s voting members Guided by the public’s welfare and sustained by our community’s support, we keep pushing forward.

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Money, Power and Politics​

  • We continue to fight the “revolving door” between government and the private sector, opposing the movement of senior officials into industries they once supervised or influenced.

  • We oppose control of the electricity sector by entities that have been found to have defrauded their partners and the state.

  • We oppose any control over the electricity sector by entities that have been found to have defrauded their partners and the state.

  • We will advocate for transparent governance and fair, competitive tenders in the allocation of regional and national radio broadcast licenses.

Power, Politics and the Media

  • Defending the Public Broadcasting Corporation.

  • Advancing reform in media legislation, including the Ratings Law and the Broadcasting Law.

  • Challenging the use of concentrated market power to maximize narrow economic interests.
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Banking Reform

  • We are advancing reform of the securities fee model, which currently allows banks to earn hundreds of millions of shekels simply by charging a percentage of customers’ savings invested in securities, while making it difficult for customers to compare these fees with those of competing providers offering similar services.

  • We are working with the Bank of Israel and the Ministry of Finance, to address the problem of chronic overdraft.

  • We are advancing legislation aimed at informing the public about funds sitting in non-interest-bearing current accounts and about the possibility of earning interest on those funds.

  • We are working to amend the Companies Law and adapt it to companies without a controlling shareholder. We are taking an active role in the Constitution Committee’s deliberations and influencing the bill’s provisions to ensure that shareholders – most of whom are institutional investors managing the public’s money – have the tools to protect their interests.

  • We promote the establishment of a fee-comparison portal between banks, with the goal of increasing transparency in the banking system and strengthening consumers’ bargaining power.

  • We are working toward renewed regulation of Israel’s financial intermediation sector as part of the committee reviewing the existing framework for short- and medium-term savings instruments.
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Transparency
and Open Government

  • We continue to advocate for new legislation that guarantees the transparency of lobbying activities within government ministries.

  • We are working to promote transparency in academic-financial relations, requiring faculty members at academic institutions to disclose their affiliations when producing official surveys, briefs, or reports for legal or regulatory proceedings.

  • We are working to require transparency for corporate donations to non-profit organizations and local authorities, to prevent such contributions from being used to influence regulatory decisions
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Cost of Living

  • We continue to work toward dismantling food monopolies, in collaboration with the dedicated government task force.

  • We support and are helping to shape a significant amendment to the Class Actions Law, a key tool for protecting consumer rights

  • We will fight any attempt to abolish the mandatory price labeling on products.
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Natural Resources (Natural Gas and Minerals)

  • We continue to work to limit gas exports, in the face of damaging attempts by gas companies to prioritize exports over domestic use, in order to safeguard Israel’s energy security and prevent greater reliance on polluting coal for electricity generation.

  • We will continue to lead the fight over the future of the Dead Sea.

  • We are working against economy-wide concentration in the natural resources sector and pushing for greater competition in the gas market, recognizing the significant impact of gas prices on electricity costs.

  • We are continuing our petition against the Supervisor of Mines, who granted ICL a new 20-year concession to mine phosphates in the Negev without consulting the Committee for Reducing Concentration, as required by law.

  • Together with local residents, we will advance our formal objection to ICL’s planning proposal to expand hazardous waste ponds – like the one that collapsed in 2017, causing the Ashalim Stream disaster – instead of building a new and safer facility. We are continuing to push for the construction of the new, safe pond.
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Pension and Insurance Funds

  • We are fighting to recover the savings lost in the “Slice” affair and work to ensure that such a failure cannot happen again.

  • We are closely monitoring the amendment to the Class Actions Law and pushing to remove provisions that would make it harder to file class actions against insurance companies.

  • We are working to expand shareholder activism by pension funds in public companies, with the goal of safeguarding members’ savings.We are working toward renewed regulation of Israel’s financial intermediation sector as part of the committee reviewing the existing regulatory framework for short- and medium-term savings instruments.

  • We continue to advance an objective pension advisory model, ensuring that financial incentives and commissions do not influence the advice clients receive from agents.
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Public Transportation

  • We continue to work to improve public transportation services by strengthening the incentive structures for operators.

  • We are advancing a “metropolitan authorities” model – transferring powers from central government to local authorities in order to improve and streamline public transportation services, as is common in many Western countries.

  • We are pushing to strengthen the independence of the Public Transportation Authority, enabling it to make professional decisions free from political interference.
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Import Monopolies

  • We continue to work to expand the “What’s Good for Europe Is Good for Israel” import reform and ensure its full implementation, so that the Israeli market can benefit from increased competition in imports.

  • We are advancing legislation that grants the Competition Commissioner stronger tools to encourage parallel imports and prevent anti-competitive practices.

  • We are working to advance a reform that ends exclusive import agreements between dominant importers and foreign suppliers, agreements that drive price increases.
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Local Authorities

  • We are promoting good governance and transparency in public tenders, including publishing results and improving public access to tender documents. We are working to change the composition of tender committees to include public representatives and independent members, similar to mechanisms used at the national level, and strengthen the standing of council members so they can effectively oversee municipal actions.

  • We are advancing fiscal decentralization by transferring revenue collection and budget management powers to local authorities. This includes regulatory relief for financially stable municipalities in taking loans, preventing delays in essential projects, and decentralizing approval authority over special (non-recurring) budgets, subject to clear administrative threshold conditions.

  • We are working to eform municipal by-laws by reducing dependence on government ministries and shortening the legislative process. We are promoting mechanisms for automatic approval of model by-laws and the creation of a defined list of simple by-laws that can be approved only at the local level alone.

  • We are working to strengthen internal oversight mechanisms by reinforcing the role and independence of key gatekeepers – including the municipal legal advisor, treasurer, and internal auditor.
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Environment

  • We continue to pursue every available avenue to ensure that Rotem Amfert – an ICL subsidiary and one of Israel’s most polluting companies – is held accountable for the immense environmental damage it has caused.

  • We are working to reduce the sweeping secrecy surrounding the activities of EAPC (the Europe Asia Pipeline Company), one of Israel’s most polluting companies, so that essential information about its operations can be made available to the public.

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