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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 593

Micha Lindenstrauss

Sara Netanyahu, wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, arrives at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court on June 16, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 22, 2019, 4:51 pm
State comptroller said to nix further graft reports like probe into PM’s wife
Matanyahu Englman reportedly makes remark to author of report that eventually led to Sara Netanyahu’s conviction
By ToI Staff
Matanyahu Englman (R) shakes hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem shortly after being nominated for state comptroller on June 3, 2019. (PMO/Twitter)
August 21, 2019, 6:51 am
Losing bite, friendlier state watchdog is accused of being Netanyahu’s poodle
New ombudsman under fire as he mulls axing anti-corruption unit, peppering audits with compliments, refraining from real-time criticism; this after shaking up key oversight panel
By Jacob Magid
Newly elected State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman seen during a press conference at the Knesset in Jerusalem, June 3, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 13, 2019, 8:13 pm
Likud: Investigate Barak for calling state comptroller Netanyahu’s ‘servant’
Democratic Camp candidate says Matanyahu Englman doing bidding of PM in expanding panel that approves premier’s legal defense funds
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem on July 7, 2019. (Abir Sultan/Pool/AFP)
August 8, 2019, 7:11 pm
Comptroller auditors resign amid row over Netanyahu legal defense
Three members of permits committee leave after new state comptroller backed by PM chides them for demanding premier return unapproved funds
By ToI Staff
Matanyahu Englman at a press conference at the Knesset after his nomination to be the next state comptroller on June 3, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 28, 2019, 1:40 pm
New state comptroller looks to end corruption probes – report
In first month on the job, Matanyahu Englman said to urge his auditors to include ‘positive’ feedback in their criticism of government agencies
By ToI Staff
Then-state comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss in 2012. (Flash90)
May 2, 2019, 6:41 pm
Micha Lindenstrauss, anti-corruption crusader and ex-comptroller, dies at 82
Born in Berlin in 1937, the former judge’s family fled Nazi Germany on the eve of World War II; ‘The issue of the Holocaust was very close to his heart,’ says wife Sima
By ToI Staff
State Comptroller Yosef Shapira presents the State Comptroller's Report in the Knesset on November 1, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 17, 2019, 1:48 pm
Comptroller ‘disgusted’ by Gallant’s attacks on former AG, ombudsman
Yosef Shapira defends Yehuda Weinstein, Micha Lindenstrauss after Likud minister claims they were extorted into preventing him from getting IDF chief job in 2011
By ToI Staff
Attorney General Avichai Mendelblit (L) and state prosecutor Shai Nitzan attend a Ministry of Justice conference in Tel Aviv, December 21, 2016. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
March 20, 2018, 10:08 am
Attorney general, state prosecutor trash Olmert ‘persecution’ claims as nonsense
Mandelblit, Nitzan say former PM’s complaints about law enforcement agencies ‘unfounded’ and harmful to public trust
By Sue Surkes
Former IDF chief of staff Gabi Ashkenazi in Tel Aviv on March 24, 2015. (Flash90)
January 22, 2016, 12:40 am
Poll: Party with Lapid, Kahlon, ex-IDF chief could beat Likud
But second survey shows Gabi Ashkenazi would trail Netanyahu for PM, though he would likely unseat opposition leader Herzog
By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff
Shmuel Zucker, head of the Defense Ministry's Acquisition Administration, talks with Capricorn Medan, VP Elbit Systems aircraft and a firefighting squadron commander. (Defense Ministry/Schlomo Shoham)
July 1, 2015, 2:03 am
Five years after Carmel blaze, Israel adds new fire squadron
Ministry of Defense partners with Elbit to deploy 14 fire-fighting aircraft at airfields nationwide
By Eric Cortellessa
Illustrative: The Knesset, Israel's parliament building in Jerusalem. (Orel Cohen/Flash90)
December 4, 2014, 4:09 am
Israel ranks 37th in world corruption study
Watchdog finds country ranks in bottom third of OECD nations, behind Qatar and United Arab Emirates
By Avi Lewis
The Israeli Knesset (photo credit: CC-BY-SA Beny Shlevich/Wikimedia Commons)
December 3, 2013, 4:45 pm
Israel among most corrupt developed states, study finds
Report finds 79% of Israelis consider political parties corrupt, former state comptroller calls for greater government transparency
By Gavriel Fiske and AP
File: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in the middle in black, flanked by then-home front defense Minister Gilad Erdan, in blue, and then-IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz and Maj. Gen. Eyal Eisenberg in May 2013. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO/Flash90)
August 7, 2013, 9:31 pm
‘Pandemonium’ on the home front
Netanyahu will have to rule who, from among an array of ministries and organizations, has ultimate control over the civilian sector in wartime
By Mitch Ginsburg
President Shimon Peres (center) and outgoing Knesset speaker Reuven Rivlin (right) at the Knesset swearing-in ceremony in Jerusalem, February 5, 2013. (screenshot/Channel 2)
March 25, 2013, 10:19 am
Rivlin, Peres top public-approval rating poll
Elder statesmen are most popular politicians, Liberman is at bottom
By Philip Podolsky
The Ayalon Prison complex in Ramle, central Israel (AP/Ariel Schalit)
February 21, 2013, 9:24 am
‘Zygier hung dead for an hour before jailers found him’
Prison guards reportedly fell asleep at the monitors and didn’t notice their charge had committed suicide
By Ilan Ben Zion and Ron Friedman
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