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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 624

Civil Service Commission

Yehuda Cohen, director general of the Chief Rabbinate. (Chief Rabbinate)
May 28, 2025, 3:03 pm
PM’s pick for acting Civil Service head is under investigation by the Civil Service
Chief Rabbinate director ignored legal adviser’s instructions on at least three occasions. NGO says appointment as acting commissioner would be ‘unprecedented conflict of interest’
By Jeremy Sharon
Israeli Ambassador the US Yechiel Leiter appears on the PragerU "Real Talk" broadcast in an interview released on May 22, 2025. (YouTube screenshot)
May 25, 2025, 5:35 pm
Envoy to US to be summoned for hearing over remarks bashing PM’s political opponents
Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter, speaking to American outlet Prager U, accused the ‘extreme left’ of ‘blood libel’ for claiming Netanyahu is prolonging the Gaza war
By Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at court in Tel Aviv on May 12, 2025. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
May 14, 2025, 6:52 pm
PM appoints Foreign Ministry director general as temporary Civil Service commissioner
Announcing Eden Bar Tal’s appointment, Netanyahu’s office accuses the High Court of ‘acting like the legislature’ due to its ruling that the selection process must be competitive
By Jeremy Sharon
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) at a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, November 1, 2024. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO); Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara at a farewell ceremony for retiring acting Supreme Court president Uzi Vogelman, at the Supreme Court, in Jerusalem, October 1, 2024. (Oren Ben Hakoon/ POOL/ File)
January 13, 2025, 12:01 am
Attorney general backs petition against PM-appointed acting civil service chief
Gali Baharav-Miara sides with watchdog group that says Netanyahu’s pick for commissioner, Roi Kahlon, isn’t qualified, and his selection by PM alone is unacceptable
By Jeremy Sharon
Attorney Roi Kahlon (Shelly Padan)
January 5, 2025, 3:23 pm
Netanyahu appoints Roi Kahlon acting civil service commissioner in defiance of AG
Prime Minister’s Office praises new commissioner’s ‘extensive experience in senior management,’ dismisses claims he is unqualified for the position
By Sam Sokol
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) at a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, November 1, 2024. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO); Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara at a farewell ceremony for retiring acting Supreme Court president Uzi Vogelman, at the Supreme Court, in Jerusalem, October 1, 2024. (Oren Ben Hakoon/ POOL/ File)
December 30, 2024, 11:52 pm
AG: Netanyahu’s nomination of acting civil service chief ‘unreasonable in the extreme’
In latest rebuke of government moves, Baharav-Miara’s office says Roi Kahlon doesn’t have qualifications for high-powered role, creating legal impediment to making the appointment
By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff
Attorney Roi Kahlon (Shelly Padan)
December 19, 2024, 2:11 pm
Netanyahu selects attorney Roi Kahlon as acting civil service commissioner
PM announces his pick amid a clash with the attorney general that has prevented a permanent selection
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, September 8, 2024. (Screen grab/GPO)
September 8, 2024, 6:07 pm
Cabinet approves extending civil service commissioner’s term amid storm over replacement
Move comes after Attorney General Baharav-Miara opposed government attempts to have Netanyahu appoint new commissioner directly, bypassing selection committee
By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff
Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara attends a farewell ceremony in honor of outgoing Police Chief Kobi Shabtai (not in picture), at the National Police Academy in Beit Shemesh, on July 14, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
September 6, 2024, 6:58 pm
AG to court: Move allowing Netanyahu to select civil service commissioner is illegal
Baharav-Miara says last month’s decision lets government pick candidate without ‘minimum professional threshold conditions of experience, skills or suitability’
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a cabinet meeting. (Maayan Toaf / GPO, undated photo)
August 11, 2024, 5:06 pm
Despite AG’s dissent, cabinet okays plan for PM to choose civil service commissioner
Netanyahu defends plan, says bureaucrats don’t ‘know better than the government’; watchdog warns move ‘threatens the independence and professionalism of the civil service’
By Sam Sokol
Daniel Hershkowitz, the head of the Civil Service Commission, attends a ceremony of turning the Ziv Medical Center in Safed into a Super Center, December 21, 2023. (David Cohen/Flash90)
June 30, 2024, 8:40 pm
Ministers pile on deputy AG over demand for panel to tap civil service chief
Amsalem reportedly calls Gil Limon the ‘most dangerous man in the country,’ after AG tells government to follow 2018 decision and form committee to fill key role
By Michael Horovitz
Sara Netanyahu (front) arrives for a hearing with her husband (unseen) at the Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court on January 23, 2023. (Abir Sultan/ Pool/ AFP/ File)
October 15, 2023, 8:22 pm
Civil service urges suspension of aide to PM’s wife for tirades against ‘traitors’
Head of discipline department slams posts by Tzipi Navon, who called critics of Netanyahu ‘treasonous kikes’ and ‘scum’ in wake of deadly Hamas assault on southern Israel
By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff
(L) MK David Amsalem in Tel Aviv, December 8, 2022; and (R) Michal Rosenbaum. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90; Finance Ministry)
August 7, 2023, 9:37 am
Amsalem accused of illegitimate demands as he moves to fire government firms’ head
Minister asks for dismissal of Michal Rosenbaum, claiming she’s unsuitable for the job; Government Companies Authority director says she will not be cowed by threats
By ToI Staff
Students at Tel Aviv University on the first day of the academic year, October 10, 2021. (Flash90, via JTA)
July 17, 2023, 11:38 pm
Universities bristle at demand to use only masculine form in official documents
Tel Aviv University says it will ‘uphold its practice of publishing tenders that address men and women equally’; Bezalel art school to use only feminine form for a month
By ToI Staff
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir speaks to reporters at Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem on January 28, 2023. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
January 30, 2023, 4:51 pm
With his bogus attack on the attorney general, Ben Gvir is off to a furious start
The new national security minister is carrying on as he did in his rabble-rousing activist days, screaming and hurling insults instead of taking real steps to defeat terrorism
By Tal Schneider
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