Pro-Israel warning reveals Arab-state subversion using charity fronts to undermine sovereignty and national security.
In an interview with Israel National News – Arutz Sheva, Ran Yishai, head of research at the Jerusalem Institute for Applied Policy, issued a stark warning over Qatar’s systematic funding of ostensibly civilian institutions inside Israel.
Yishai described Qatar as a Muslim Brotherhood state that deploys money as a strategic weapon, channeling vast sums into schools, universities, hospitals, welfare frameworks, and cultural institutions. The objective, he said, is long-term influence operations—mirroring tactics already visible across universities in Europe and the United States.
Among the most alarming cases, Yishai highlighted Qatari funding for the French Hospital in eastern Jerusalem, openly reported by Al Jazeera. According to him, funding routes were deliberately altered to bypass Israeli oversight, with money funneled through Palestinian Authority banking channels only meters from Israel Police headquarters.
He rejected attempts to separate “civilian aid” from terror support, arguing that entities such as UNRWA demonstrate how humanitarian branding masks ideological and operational links to extremism. Yishai warned that foreign consulates—including Turkish, British, Italian, and French—continue activities that undermine Israeli sovereignty, largely without consequence.
“This is not intelligence—it’s open information,” Yishai stressed, urging Israeli leadership to confront foreign interference decisively. “It is better to live hard than to die easy.”
