Government appoints 2 new members of top-level public service vetting forum
Law professor Talia Einhorn and former chair of securities authority Moshe Tery to join committee that selects army, police chiefs
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The government approved the appointments of two new members of the state committee that vets candidates for the most senior public service positions, putting the selection of new heads for the Israel Police and the IDF back on track.
Talia Einhorn is a law professor at Ariel University and a faculty member at Tel Aviv University.
Moshe Tery served as chairman of the Israel Securities Authority from 2002 to 2008. He has also served as general manager of the Israel Postal Authority and director of the Israel Airport Authority.
Their appointments were unanimously approve by ministers.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly did not vote in order to avoid any appearance of a conflict of interest.
Einhorn and Moshe Tery were tapped to join the panel following last month’s resignations of former national security adviser Yaakov Nagel and Iris Shtark, an accountant.
The High Court of Justice had ordered a freeze to all proceedings of the four-person committee headed by Eliezer Goldberg, a former Supreme Court justice and state comptroller, following an appeal by the Movement for Integrity watchdog group, which had insisted that both Nagel and Shtark were too close to Netanyahu.
The Goldberg Committee is charged with examining any ethical difficulties that arise in the choice of appointees to the heads of key state agencies, including the IDF, Israel Police, Mossad, Shin Bet and Bank of Israel.
The Goldberg Committee’s fourth member is the serving head of the Civil Service Commission, a post currently held by Daniel Hershkovitz, a former science minister and president of Bar Ilan University.
Current police chief Roni Alsheich and army Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot are both scheduled to end their tenures in December.
The Times of Israel Community.