Israel still has work to do to clean up public sector corruption, Transparency International's new Corruption Perceptions Index shows. Israel received a score of 60 and ranked 39 out of 176 nations and territories. In 2011, Israel ranked 36th, and in 2010, 30th. The Corruption Perceptions Index ranks countries and territories based on how corrupt their public sector is perceived to be. A country or territorys score indicates the perceived level of public sector corruption on a scale of 0-100, where 0 means that a country is perceived as highly corrupt and 100 means it is perceived as very clean. A country's rank indicates its position relative to the other countries and territories included in the index. This year's index includes 176 countries and territories. When examining the results of the 37 nations belonging to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development however, Israel is situated in the bottom half (ranked 24th). Among the OECD ranked higher than Israel in terms of corruption are Chile (20th place overall, and 13th place in the OECD), Ireland (25th overall, 15th in the OECD), Spain (30th overall, 16th in the OECD) and Portugal (33rd overall, 18th in the OECD). Israel's neighbors however, ranked much lower: Jordan ranked 58th of the 176 nations measured, Egypt 118th, Lebanon 128th, and Syria near the bottom at 144th. Neither the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank nor the Hamas regime in the Gaza Strip were included among the countries and territories ranked in the index. "In comparing with years past, there has been no significant change in the fight against corruption and the realization of the damage it causes the country," Transparency International Israel said of the index. Transparency International called out Israel for having little or no enforcement of the OECD anti-bribery convention. Three countries tied for the top position as least corrupt Denmark, Finland and New Zealand, each of which received a score of 90 out of a maximum of 100. Three countries also shared the bottom position as most corrupt Afghanistan, North Korea and Somalia, each of which scored 8. Sudan, just above them, scored 13.
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Israel treading water in corruption index
Israel received a score of 60 (0 being very corrupt and 100 being clean of corruption) and ranked 39th best out of 176 nations and territories • Among the 37 OECD countries, 23 rank higher than Israel among them Chile, Ireland, Spain and Portugal • Israel's neighbors however, ranked much lower: Jordan 58th, Egypt 118th, Lebanon 128th, and Syria placed near the bottom at 144th.