State Comptroller Yosef Shapira tells Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein that he anticipated the “issue of the difficulties of integrating descendants of the Ethiopian community as a breaking point.”
In a statement upon filing his Annual Report, Shapira says the report “includes a biting critique on the issue of ‘aspects in advancing the integration of Ethiopian descendants – significant faults in managing the national program,’ where I remarked that there was social and public importance of the first degree to prioritize dealing with this issue.”
Shapira says he worked “in an effort to realize the state’s obligation, made already several years ago, to hold a ceremony where diplomas of appreciation would be given to activists from the Ethiopian community, but sadly, a date for this ceremony has not been set.”
“I call on the prime minister to urgently hold the ceremony where diplomas of appreciation, as well as to implement the conclusions of the report, while creating an atmosphere of dialogue between representatives of the community and relevant government authorities. Only dialogue will help restore order and protect the dignity of descendants of the community,” Shapira continues.
Archive photo: State Comptroller Yosef Shapira (R), chairman of the Israeli Knesset Yuli Edelstein and chairman of the State Control committee Amnon Cohen (L) seen posing for a picture with the State Comptroller’s report during the presentation of the previous report in the Knesset, on October 29, 2014. (Photo credit: by Flash90)
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