Israel also has/had the similar concept of "protektsiya" (loanword from Russian). There's a joke (mostly making fun of modern Israeli pretensions to clean mode

Israel also has/had the similar concept of "protektsiya" (loanword from Russian). There's a joke (mostly making fun of modern Israeli pretensions to clean modern society) - the kids these days don't mess with protektsiya, they have "connections" (the English word) instead.