State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman attends a meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on May 12, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
The State Comptroller’s Office has sent drafts of findings from an investigation into the Nova massacre to former senior officials, Channel 12 reports.
The investigation is one of a range of probes the comptroller’s office is conducting into the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, massacre. The investigations are controversial because critics have demanded the formation of a state commission of inquiry to look into the massacre. State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman, who leads the office, has no legal background and was appointed under a Netanyahu-led government. The IDF has also sought to stop his probe.
Burnt cars are left behind at the site of the massacre three days earlier by Palestinian terrorists on the Supernova desert music festival near Kibbutz Re’im in the Negev desert in southern Israel, on October 10, 2023. (Jack Guez/AFP)
Channel 12 reports that Englman’s office has sent drafts of his conclusions regarding the Nova festival, where terrorists killed more than 300 people and took others hostage, to a number of former officials, including former IDF chief Herzi Halevi and former police commissioner Kobi Shabtai.
The network reports that some of the former officials in question protested that they received the conclusions before being interviewed by the office. The office said that they would have a chance to give testimony after reading the drafts.
Channel 12 does not detail the contents of the draft reports.
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