The Ministry of Culture is a political device. The Minister of Culture is a politician, who is Minister because of the support given to his views, or his party's, by the people. Any particular decision of the Minister's is political (albeit often in the "good" sense).

But the BY project is an archive, with an aim to be comprehensive. Political decisions, good or bad, may seek to suppress certain works or authors, or to emphasize certain others, and we would not like to find ourselves subject to conditions that compel us to do that.

I don't see what the (useless) office of the President of Israel has to do with anything.

All that said, if the government were to hand us a sum of money saying "we think you're doing good work; just keep it up!", with no strings attached -- i.e. not making us answerable to them in any way, I'm not sure we'd refuse.

Happily, we don't depend on such a handout to continue our work.

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