Because the Peres Center is a non-profit foundation, whose goal is to serve the public, it is by definition a public institution. The business newspaper Globes summed up the absurdity better than I could. For The Expansion Of Chocolate Drinks. They are all now eligible for the breaks that come with being government institutions. Such has Peres twisted the law that yes, all foundations in Israel are now public institutions if the Peres Center is ever used as a legal precedent.
Israeli law insists that public buildings be open to the public.
The Peres Center will be surrounded by guards and only the invited allowed in. We will be inviting the public to our functions no matter what their political leanings. It will serve almost no one in Yaffo and will interrupt all boardwalk traffic. Israeli environmental law now bans the construction of buildings closer then 100 meters from the sea. The law is vital since so little seafront property remains open in the country.