A Knesset meeting. Photo: Sven Kindler.

Ynet – Private bodies are growing increasingly involved in almost every aspect of governmental activities and in almost every government ministry, a new report claims, pointing to massive privatization efforts by the government.

The report, penned by Sarit Ben Simhon-Peleg and Amir Paz-Fuchs for the Chazan Center for Social Justice and Democracy in the Van Leer Institute, raises concerns about who in fact controls the government and detailed both the privatization processes and the possible dangers they entail, including the possibility that the biometric data of Israeli citizens could fall into the wrong hands.

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