The Jewish news website Hagalil.com in Germany is facing closure following a row over public funding. Hagalil provides daily updated news stories in German on all facets of Jewish life. But this could end soon as the German government seems unwilling to accept demands to provide funding to a new organization sponsoring Hagalil. The Munich-based news service employs three full-time journalists and a dozen freelancers. It has been remarkably successful and its website has achieved 320,000 visits a month. It notably unearthed the anti-Semitic statements made by the CDU member of parliament, Martin Hohmann, in 2003, an affair which led to Hohmann's resignation. Until the end of 2004, Hagalil received an annual allocation of € 75,000 (US$ 100,000) from a special government fund to fight anti-Semitism. But the ministry for Family and Youth is critical of what it regards as "opaque structures" at Hagalil and has so far refused to pay any subsidy in 2005.