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Knesset State Comptroller Committee

People take shelter as sirens warning of incoming Iranian missiles sound in Tel Aviv, Saturday, March 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
March 9, 2026, 2:13 pm
Schools to stay closed, gathering restrictions remain unchanged until end of week
Home Front Command says tighter restrictions to remain hours, forcing education minister to walk back announcement that schools could resume operating in certain areas
By Rossella Tercatin, Emanuel Fabian and Ariela Karmel
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a plenum session for the Knesset's 77th birthday on February 2, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 6, 2026, 6:15 am
Placing blame elsewhere, Netanyahu shares his answers to state comptroller’s Oct. 7 probe
PM releases selective quotes portraying security chiefs and political rivals as opposed to toppling Hamas, though before 2023 attack he wrote that he opposed ‘conquering’ Gaza when Bennett pushed to do so in 2014
By Lazar Berman
View of a massive wildfire near Mevo Horon, April 30, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 3, 2025, 2:21 am
15 years after deadly Carmel blaze, state still ‘underfunding wildfire protection’
Knesset committee hears how lack of cash impacting pilot firebreak project, maintenance, water provision, firefighting personnel
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative: A remote-controlled drone with a camera attached to it, February 18, 2015. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)
January 1, 2018, 6:07 pm
National task force unveiled to deal with drone dangers
With rise in incidents involving remote-controlled aircraft, better coordination needed between ministries and security agencies, MKs hear
By Sue Surkes
Then-Knesset speaker Yuli Edelstein (R) speaks with MK David Bitan at the Knesset during a plenum session, January 18, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 21, 2017, 3:23 pm
Knesset speaker ‘disgusted’ by Likud MKs who yelled at bereaved families
Yuli Edelstein expresses ‘deep sadness’ after shouting match between lawmakers and parents of fallen soldiers
By ToI Staff
MK David Bitan rebukes bereaved parents during a Knesset State Control Committee discussion about Israel‘s 2014 Gaza war against Hamas, April 19, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
April 20, 2017, 12:44 am
PM’s office slams Likud MKs for shouting match with bereaved parents
Lawmakers David Bitan and Miki Zohar ‘harmed attempts‘ to involve families of fallen soldiers in discussion about 2014 Gaza war
By Sue Surkes
IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot attends a State Control Committee meeting in the Knesset on March 22, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 22, 2017, 11:43 am
Saying tunnels not existential threat, IDF head admits hitting them from air
Revealing that air force is destroying tunnels during reprisal attacks, Gadi Eisenkot tells lawmakers the passageways are a serious threat but shouldn’t be exaggerated
By Judah Ari Gross
Devorah Israeli, of Nitzan, with 8-year-old Idan and 6-month-old Ron in the sewage pipe bomb shelter next to her caravilla during Operation Protective Edge in summer 2014. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)
December 6, 2016, 8:50 pm
Opposition lambasts government ‘neglect’ over home front report
State Comptroller’s findings ‘reinforce the sense of most Israelis that everything has been neglected,’ charges Zionist Union chief Isaac Herzog
By ToI Staff
State Comptroller Yosef Shapira (R) hands the State Comptroller's annual report to Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein on May 24, 2016. (Issac Harari/Flash90)
May 24, 2016, 5:39 pm
PM’s associates, ex-AG sabotaged original ‘Bibi Tours’ probe, charges MK
Weinstein worked to ‘plaster over affair, drag feet and sabotage comptroller’s work,’ claims Zionist Union’s Yoel Hasson
By ToI Staff
Severe traffic on the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv on October 28, 2015. (Simcha Simon, courtesy)
October 28, 2015, 4:27 pm
Storm leaves 15,000 households without power, again
New outages come hours after power company fixes electrical grids damaged in previous storm
By ToI Staff
Chairman of the State Control Committee MK Amnon Cohen at a committee meeting, July 03, 2013. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
July 30, 2013, 6:18 pm
Knesset committee to probe defense budget irregularities
Comptroller report found funding to security forces in 2011 increased by tens of millions of shekels that weren’t reported
By Stuart Winer
Ben Zygier in IDF uniform (YouTube screenshot)
February 17, 2013, 10:16 pm
Knesset committee to launch probe into ‘Prisoner X’ affair
Security official tells Israeli TV that Ben Zygier was offered plea bargain, but took his own life ‘out of shame’
By Adiv Sterman and ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the opening of the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, February 10 (photo by: Marc Israel Sellem/Flash90)
February 17, 2013, 12:25 pm
Netanyahu on Zygier affair: Let the security forces do their jobs
MK Uri Ariel calls for independent probe of Mossad case that ended in suicide; Labor’s Cabel says his past inquiry into matter was discouraged by intelligence officials
By Stuart Winer
State Comptroller Yosef Shapira (Uri Lenz/Flash90)
December 3, 2012, 7:02 pm
State comptroller wraps up report into alleged misconduct among military brass
Defense minister, former chief of staff given copies of investigation into so-called Harpaz affair
By Aaron Kalman
August 7, 2012, 4:00 pm
Families fume during Carmel blaze meeting: ’44 people were killed, not 44 cockroaches’
Netanyahu blames disaster on lack of firefighting planes
By Stuart Winer
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