Some of the activities of the Institute include the following.
Constitutional task force The Institution wrote a draft for a possible constitution, which was presented in 2006.. The draft constitution emphasizes the sections defining the State of
Israel as the national home of the
Jewish people, and it significantly alters the relationship between the judicial authority and the
legislative and
executive authorities. The Constitutional Task Force listed among its members: Prof.
Avraham Diskin, Prof.
Moshe Koppel, Prof. Berachyahu Lifshitz, Judge (ret.) Uri Strosemn,
Rabbi Dan Barry, Dr. Yitzhak Klein, Adv.
Joel Golovensky and Israel Harel. This draft constitution was not adopted.
Foreign funding for NGO's This project studied more than 20
NGOs in Israel and their donors. The Institute, in collaboration with
NGO Monitor, issued a joint report claiming that foreign governments were funding NGOs in Israel in order to influence Israeli policy and public debate. As a result, a bill was proposed to the Knesset requiring funding disclosure by NGOs receiving support from foreign political entities. The bill was approved in February 2011 and was not well received by the
European Union.
Accusations of bias in academia The IZS, as part of the research of Dr. Hanan Moses, examined the extent of "bias toward
post-Zionist discourse" in sociology departments throughout Israeli universities and whether what the Institute views as the "Zionist
narrative" is given equal treatment in Israeli academia. The investigation claimed that all Israeli universities except
Bar-Ilan University have what the research describes as "post-Zionist bias" in their sociology departments. Those claims were compared by some to
McCarthyism 7 October 2023 attack as opportunity to evacuate Gaza Strip In October 2023, the Institute published a paper describing the
October 7 attacks as "a unique and rare opportunity to evacuate the entire
Gaza Strip". The paper proposes the ethnic cleansing of all of Gaza by displacing its inhabitants to empty apartments near Cairo, Egypt. ==References ==