{"id":1772,"date":"2021-03-22T14:39:51","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T14:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emekshaveh.org\/en\/?p=1772"},"modified":"2021-03-22T14:40:49","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T14:40:49","slug":"freedom-of-information-petition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emekshaveh.org\/en\/freedom-of-information-petition\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom of Information Petition:  The Antiquities Authority Must Disclose Information Regarding Conservation Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>For more than a year, the Antiquities Authority has refused to submit information regarding conservation work it had carried out between 2013- 2019.\u00a0 *\u00a0 Information about sites which have undergone conservation is basic and essential for researchers and visitors. * Emek Shaveh:\u00a0 It is unfortunate that a professional body such as the Antiquities Authority does not share the basic understanding that information about the heritage treasures and sites of Israel must be accessible to the public.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The director of conservation at the Antiquities Authority is responsible for approximately 50 conservation projects per year.\u00a0 The conservation work is one of the central activities of the Antiquities Authority, second only to archaeological excavations.\u00a0 The Antiquities Authority, which is aware of its professional and academic status, regularly publishes information about the archaeological excavations that it carries out each year.\u00a0 It is expected that similar information regarding conservation work performed by the Authority would also be available.\u00a0 For reasons that are not clear, the Antiquities Authority has not only stopped publishing partial information regarding\u00a0 conservation work, as it had done in the past, but has\u00a0 refused to provide information even after the freedom of information request submitted by Emek Shaveh.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The request for information regarding sites that had undergone conservation between 2013 to 2019 was submitted\u00a0 a year ago.\u00a0 Such information could be instructive as to whether there is a particular policy or agenda regarding the sites chosen for conservation.\u00a0 This information is critical for researchers.\u00a0 Oddly, the Antiquities Authority refuses to provide the information.\u00a0 Last week, Emek Shaveh petitioned the court, requesting that the information be made public.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Emek Shaveh: <\/strong>\u00a0The Antiquities Authority is a public body whose mission is to serve the public. The information in its possession is public information.\u00a0 The information we requested is basic which is part of the scholarly discourse and which enables examination of the Antiquities Authority\u2019s actions.\u00a0 It is unfortunate that a professional body such as the Antiquities Authority does not share the basic belief that that the heritage treasures and sites of Israel, as well as the information pertaining to them, must be disclosed to the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For more than a year, the Antiquities Authority has refused to submit information regarding conservation work it had carried out between 2013- 2019.\u00a0 *\u00a0 Information about sites which have undergone conservation is basic and essential for researchers and visitors. * Emek Shaveh:\u00a0 It is unfortunate that a professional body such as the Antiquities Authority does [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"class_list":["post-1772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-actions","tag-conservation","tag-israel-antiquities-authority","tag-legal-petitions"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.6 - 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