RIGHTS BOOKLET

N. Funding Overseas Travel

General As part of promoting the efforts to free or locate hostages, captives and missing persons - efforts that involve, among other things, travel of family members to different places overseas to advance the captives issue in the global agenda - funding of travel expenses will be granted according to the details below.

Existing options:

■ Delegations on behalf of the various relevant government departments (The Kidnapped and Missing Persons, Returnees, and their Families Administration, The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Ministry for Diaspora Affairs). ■ Each family has the right, by virtue of the Financing the Expenses of Families of Captives, Abductees and Missing Persons Law-2008 (hereinafter: "the law"), to receive funding for an individual trip initiated by the family to advance their cause. ■ A dedicated committee operates in the Ministry of Defense to discuss and examine whether to approve requests of family members to fund their expenses according to Section 2 of the law.

Exercising the right:

■ The right to funding is extended to first-degree family members of captives. However, because there are currently families where the family members capable of representing the family overseas are not first-degree family members, a request can be submitted to the committee to approve "an agreed upon family member".

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