Yet on March 15, 2020, UNRWA posted on its site that 47 nations had pledged close to one billion dollars to UNRWA this year.

The Bedein Center’s staff sent a query to all 47 nations to ascertain if any of these countries had not sent their donations to UNRWA.

Every donor nation affirmed that they sent their promised donation to UNRWA.
So why is there a UNRWA financial and humanitarian crisis?

This situation is similar to events that occurred two years ago. On June 20, 2018, UNRWA declared it was out of money. In 2018, then as now, our staff contacted all 47 donor nations, who all confirmed they had indeed  donated $1.2 billion to UNRWA, with no delay in relaying the funds.

When given the responsibility to administer 59 refugee camps, running out of funds once is worrying, but twice cannot be a coincidence

On 5 separate occasions, the Bedein Center brought these concerns to the staff of the UN Secretary General, who made it clear that the UNRWA donor nations must deal with  all claims of UNRWA policy indiscretions.

In that context, The Bedein Center will again meet with the staff of the UN secretary general to report that, once again, one billion dollars of donations to UNRWA cannot be accounted for.

Where is the call for UNRWA accountability from UNRWA donor nations?

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Our first newsletter for the new year, and and we were devastated to hear of the murder of Esther Horgan, a mother of six and resident of Tal Menashe in the North Eastern Shomron.

Esther invested her heart and soul into life in Israel. Her husband explained that they realized that each generation was born in yet another country. He said, “We were both really from Jerusalem, but by a twist of fate we were born in Paris.”

Make no mistake: Esther was killed for being a Jew. 

The Israeli government has never demanded that the Palestinian Authority repeal their official ordinance which provides an automatic award for anyone who murders a Jew. That award is for the killer and for the killer’s family, for life. 

This is why we work so hard to spread awareness. Please see the update section below for events and materials ensuring donor nations can ask UNRWA for transparency, which will limit the radicalization of the next generation.

David Bedein – Director

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David Bedein

David Bedein is an MSW community organizer and an investigative journalist.   In 1987, Bedein established the Israel Resource News Agency at Beit Agron to accompany foreign journalists in their coverage of Israel, to balance the media lobbies established by the PLO and their allies.   Mr. Bedein has reported for news outlets such as CNN Radio, Makor Rishon, Philadelphia Inquirer, Los Angeles Times, BBC and The Jerusalem Post, For four years, Mr. Bedein acted as the Middle East correspondent for The Philadelphia Bulletin, writing 1,062 articles until the newspaper ceased operation in 2010. Bedein has covered breaking Middle East negotiations in Oslo, Ottawa, Shepherdstown, The Wye Plantation, Annapolis, Geneva, Nicosia, Washington, D.C., London, Bonn, and Vienna. Bedein has overseen investigative studies of the Palestinian Authority, the Expulsion Process from Gush Katif and Samaria, The Peres Center for Peace, Peace Now, The International Center for Economic Cooperation of Yossi Beilin, the ISM, Adalah, and the New Israel Fund.   Since 2005, Bedein has also served as Director of the Center for Near East Policy Research.   A focus of the center’s investigations is The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). In that context, Bedein authored Roadblock to Peace: How the UN Perpetuates the Arab-Israeli Conflict – UNRWA Policies Reconsidered, which caps Bedein’s 28 years of investigations of UNRWA. The Center for Near East Policy Research has been instrumental in reaching elected officials, decision makers and journalists, commissioning studies, reports, news stories and films. In 2009, the center began decided to produce short movies, in addition to monographs, to film every aspect of UNRWA education in a clear and cogent fashion.   The center has so far produced seven short documentary pieces n UNRWA which have received international acclaim and recognition, showing how which UNRWA promotes anti-Semitism and incitement to violence in their education’   In sum, Bedein has pioneered The UNRWA Reform Initiative, a strategy which calls for donor nations to insist on reasonable reforms of UNRWA. Bedein and his team of experts provide timely briefings to members to legislative bodies world wide, bringing the results of his investigations to donor nations, while demanding reforms based on transparency, refugee resettlement and the demand that terrorists be removed from the UNRWA schools and UNRWA payroll.   Bedein’s work can be found at:www.IsraelBehindTheNews.com and www.cfnepr.com. A new site,unrwa-monitor.com, will be launched very soon.

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