Our Activities
We continue to navigate diverse domains including the Israeli parliament, ministry offices, government authorities, and others. Our purpose? We work tirelessly to promote and advance the topics prioritized by the voting members of Lobby 99. Guided by the public's welfare and sustained by our community's contributions, we continue our efforts.
- Our ongoing efforts involve countering the “revolving doors” phenomenon and opposing the transitions of former senior government officials to positions in the private sector, especially when such previous public roles involved supervision or influence over those same businesses.
- We will actively contest any agreements that might have adverse effects on the public, contributing to the market dominance of business conglomerates controlled by influential business tycoons.
Power, Politics and the Media
- We are dedicated to safeguarding the freedom of the press and news organizations ensuring their autonomy from the influence of the wealthy and influential who seek to promote their personal agendas.
- We remain committed to upholding the independence of the public broadcasting corporation, maintaining its independence from both economic and political interests.
- Our efforts will be directed towards discontinuing the low-interest bank track for the government’s ‘’Savings Fund For Every Child’’program (Hisachon LeKol Yeled) which significantly and negatively impacts the savings of thousands of children savings funds.
- Our efforts will focus on preventing Abu Dhabi from acquiring The Phoenix Insurance Company Ltd. which manages over 370 billion shekels of Israelis pension funds. Additionally, we are committed to preventing Alfred Akirov’s acquisition of Clal Insurance
- Our commitment extends to further promoting the objective independent pensions consultant model, ensuring that financial bias (commissions) do not influence the service provided to customers by consultants.
- We will persist in advocating for the enactment of new legislation that guarantees transparency of lobbying activities within government offices.
- Our efforts will be directed towards promoting transparency in academic-financial relations, requiring official surveys, briefs or reports prepared by faculty members in academic institutions and furnished to tycoons for legal or regulatory proceedings to disclose their affiliations.
- We will lead the efforts to promote transparency in relation to corporate donations to non-profit organizations and local authorities, with the goal of preventing such contributions from being used as a means to influence regulatory decisions.
- Our commitment extends to further refining the strategy of dismantling food monopolies in collaboration with the dedicated government task force addressing this concern.
- We will collaborate to implement additional restrictions on dominant food monopolies within the framework of the "Omnibus Arrangement Law," including prohibiting additional mergers in the market.
- We will actively work towards developing a solution that improves the efficiency of the court overseeing standardized contracts, with the authority to nullify and amend provisions detrimental to consumers.
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- Our unwavering efforts will be directed towards the full implementation of the toiletries import reform. This transformation will shift the Israeli market from complex requirements and testing to a system based on affidavits and enforcement through market product sampling.
- We will promote new legislations to enable the Competition Authority to encourage parallel importation and deter anti-competitive practices.
- We are committed to promoting a reform that eliminates exclusive import agreements between importation monopolies and foreign suppliers, thus preventing price hikes.
- We will persist in our efforts to curb gas exports, countering the gas companies' detrimental intentions to prioritize exports over domestic consumption. This is essential to safeguard Israel's energy security and prevent a surge in polluting coal use for electricity generation.
- Working closely with the committee overseeing the Dead Sea concession, we will ensure that when the current concession ends in 2030, the Dead Sea is reclaimed for the public benefit. This entails allocating 60-80% of the profits to the public and minimizing environmental damage.
- We will prioritize bolstering competition within the gas market, recognizing the substantial influence of gas prices on electricity costs.
- Our commitment lies in advocating the transformation of the Securities Commission model, a system that allows banks to generate significant profits without delivering meaningful value. This is achieved merely by collecting a percentage from customers' savings invested in securities.
- We will continue our efforts to push for the introduction of interest payments on current accounts, a necessary measure given the absence of competition within the banking system. Despite not paying interest to customers on their current account balances, banks secure risk-free returns at an exorbitant rate from these balances.
- We are dedicated to creating a credit data database equipped with real-time comparative information. This valuable tool will aid the public in selecting the most cost-effective and appropriate loans or mortgages, potentially resulting in savings of tens of thousands of shekels.
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- Our commitment remains to the ongoing effort to eliminate corruption within local authorities by strengthening the autonomy of oversight bodies and bolstering the standing of opposition members.
- We will continue to promote transparency in relation to donations received by local authorities, including those from corporations that could potentially impact the environment.
- We will continue to promote effective and efficient public transport by actively supporting the expansion of public transport routes.
- We will actively oppose any efforts aimed at eliminating temporary bus terminals that play a crucial role in improving the efficiency of public transport.
- Our efforts will focus on improving the bus tendering process, where private mass transportation companies secure contracts, with the aim of elevating the standard of service for passengers.
- We will continue to represent the public’s interest in the Dead Sea High Court case, working to prevent Idan Ofer from receiving ‘Financial Benefits’ from the State while he profits from our natural resource, at the expense of the public.
- We will continue our efforts through various avenues to ensure that Rotem Ampert, a subsidary of ICL, known as one of the most environmentally damaging companies in Israel, be held accountable for the significant damage it has caused to the environment.