The mother of terror victim Danny Gonen HY”D announced that foreign nations are funding the legal defense for the terrorists indicted for her son’s murder.

Mrs. Devorah Gonen told members of the Knesset Law Committee in a tearful voice that the terrorists who murdered her son during a hike in the Dolev area are being represented by lawyers funded by foreign nations. She was addressing a session of the committee debating the Transparency Bill which compels NGOs to declare donations and sources of funding. This initiative was introduced by Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked in response to European funding for left-wing NGOs.

Mrs. Gonen explained to committee members that “these funds encourage terrorism as the terrorists knew they would receive representation and his family would receive monetary compensation. The terrorist is alive, his family is funded and I have the honor of being a bereaved mother. Foreign countries are funding murder. Take the foreign funding into consideration. How can the attorney representing the terrorist justify the murder of my son?”

Machane Tzioni MK Zouheir Bahloul responded “I understand and feel your pain as well as feeling the pain of the tragedy you endured. However, the State of Israel receives billions in funding from foreign nations and funds are used for security and the military uses some of these funds as well to wage wars that claims lives”.

During the heated discussion, committee chair, MK (Bayit Yehudi) Nissim Slomiansky called MK (Yesh Atid) Yael German three times and final ejected her from the session.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)