ISRAEL AML/CFT AGENCIES SHOW INVENTIVENESS AND COLLABORATION IN COMBATING THE FINANCING OF TERRORISM
August 1st, 2019
ISRAEL faces a particularly high terrorist-financing risk from outside its borders, while fraud, tax offences, organised crime, public sector corruption and the use of cash heighten domestic money laundering risks. The Israeli government has integrated these risks into its anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) policies and laws. Addressing the UN Security Council on terror finance in March, Sarah Weiss, legal adviser to the Israel foreign affairs ministry, argued: “Israel has worked effectively to combat terror financing on ...
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