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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 339

State Comptroller

State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman (L) at the Israeli Bar Association conference in Tel Aviv, September 3, 2024. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90); Opposition Leader Yair Lapid leads a Yesh Atid faction meeting at the Knesset, Jerusalem, September 4, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Lapid alleges comptroller’s Oct. 7 probe meant to help Netanyahu avoid state inquest
By Sam Sokol and Jeremy Sharon
‘An attack on the institution of the state comptroller is dangerous,’ Englman says after opposition chief accuses him of helping PM ‘evade his duty to establish a state commission’
State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman (L) at the Israeli Bar Association conference in Tel Aviv, September 3, 2024. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90); Opposition Leader Yair Lapid leads a Yesh Atid faction meeting at the Knesset, Jerusalem, September 4, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 5, 2024, 6:04 pm
Lapid alleges comptroller’s Oct. 7 probe meant to help Netanyahu avoid state inquest
‘An attack on the institution of the state comptroller is dangerous,’ Englman says after opposition chief accuses him of helping PM ‘evade his duty to establish a state commission’
By Sam Sokol and Jeremy Sharon
State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman speaks at an Israel Bar Association conference in Tel Aviv, September 3, 2024. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
September 3, 2024, 4:57 pm
Comptroller blasts political, IDF chiefs for failing to ‘bear responsibility’ for Oct. 7
Speaking at Bar Association conference, Matanyahu Englman accuses the military of building ‘high and impassable walls’ to stymie his probe into its failures surrounding the attack
By Jeremy Sharon
High Court Justice Noam Sohlberg presides over a court hearing on the state comptroller's investigation into the failings surrounding the October 7 Hamas invasion, July 17, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
July 18, 2024, 5:06 pm
High Court seeks compromise over attempts to halt State Comptroller’s Oct. 7 probes
Justices ask the state agencies opposed to the investigation, including the IDF and Shin Bet, to say whether they can agree on the less sensitive aspects of the probe
By Jeremy Sharon
Israeli State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman attends the Eli Horowitz Conference for Economy and Society, organized by Israel Democracy Institute in Jerusalem, May 22, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 16, 2024, 8:17 pm
State comptroller finds wage gap, underrepresentation of women in local government
Report also finds persistence of ‘real gaps in all areas of life between Ethiopians and the rest of the Jewish population’ decades after primary waves of immigration
By Sam Sokol
Gaby Portnoy, head of the Israel National Cyber Directorate (INCD) speaks at the Cyberweek annual conference at Tel Aviv University on June 25, 2024. (Courtesy)
June 25, 2024, 7:31 pm
Iranian cyber terrorism since Oct. 7 is a global threat, warns Israel cyber czar
Israel’s State Comptroller is looking into potential cyber breaches of the PMO, and drone systems as part of a cyber threat preparedness report leading to and since the Hamas war
By Sharon Wrobel
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to soldiers during a visit to the northern border on May 28, 2024. (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)
May 28, 2024, 9:37 pm
At northern border, Netanyahu pledges to return residents ‘safely to their homes’
Report says PM doesn’t want commission of inquiry into October 7 failures at this time out of fear ex-Supreme Court president Hayut will head it
By ToI Staff
Left: IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi gives a statement to the media at an army base in southern Israel, December 26, 2023; Right: State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman walk at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on December 28, 2022. (Flash90)
May 9, 2024, 10:33 pm
State backs petition demanding comptroller back off October 7 investigation
Adopting IDF’s position, state tells High Court ombudsman’s ‘unprecedented’ investigation into failings would harm army’s focus on the war
By Jeremy Sharon
Israelis enjoying the beach in Tel Aviv during a heatwave, on April 24, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
May 9, 2024, 8:19 am
Environment laws becoming harder to pass, outgoing ministry legal adviser says
Dalit Dror tells confab officials fought Finance Ministry as hard as they could over much-maligned climate bill, which passed first reading in April
By Sue Surkes
Environmental Protection Minister Idit Silman speaks during a debate in the Knesset, August 16, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 4, 2024, 8:58 pm
Knesset passes 1st reading of climate bill without any clear budgeting
In what opponents see as capitulation to Finance Ministry, bill allows government to change climate goals and time targets, as well as base year for comparison
By Sue Surkes
Pedestrians on Balfour Street, in the section closed to cars, with the Prime Minister's Residence behind them, December 24, 2021. (David Horovitz/Times of Israel)
April 2, 2024, 6:48 pm
Comptroller slams ‘scandalous’ delays, waste of public funds in renovating PM residence
State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman says NIS 56 million has been spent unnecessarily in securing private residences for Netanyahu, Bennett, Lapid while construction underway
By ToI Staff
Firefighters try to extinguish a forest fire raging near moshav Mesilat Zion, September 28, 2022. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
March 19, 2024, 4:15 pm
State comptroller chides government, PM for talk but little action on climate change
Report says despite 47 government decisions in 16 years, progress marked by ‘functional stagnation’; fossil fuel subsidies far exceed funds for emissions cuts, climate preparation
By Sue Surkes
File - The remains of the destruction caused by Hamas terrorists when they infiltrated Kibbutz Be'eri on October 7, 2023, near the Israeli-Gaza border, southern Israel, January 4, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
March 9, 2024, 7:56 pm
State comptroller said aiming to publish first Oct. 7 findings by anniversary
Initial report to only focus on meetings held on night before murderous incursion, immediate response to massacre, Channel 12 says; Englman says network report inaccurate
By ToI Staff
Left: IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi gives a statement to the media at an army base in southern Israel, December 26, 2023; Right: State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman walk at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on December 28, 2022. (Flash90)
January 25, 2024, 11:37 pm
State comptroller hits back at IDF chief over criticism of probe into Oct. 7 failures
Matanyahu Englman says no reason investigation can’t go ahead, since it doesn’t require attention of combat ranks; calls on military to cooperate with document requests
By Jeremy Sharon
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi issues a video statement, January 23, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
January 25, 2024, 11:53 am
IDF chief said to halt outside team’s probe of Oct. 7 failures after political rebuke
Report says Herzi Halevi has frozen formation of team of former military generals, which was slammed by right-wingers over timing and staffing of the investigation
By ToI Staff
Left: IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi gives a statement to the media at an army base in southern Israel, December 26, 2023; Right: State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman walk at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on December 28, 2022. (Flash90)
January 24, 2024, 8:37 pm
Halevi tells comptroller his planned Oct. 7 probe will divert IDF’s attention from war
Army chief says ‘no precedent’ for holding review amid fighting, after Englman last month announced plans to investigate all aspects of failures
By Emanuel Fabian and Jeremy Sharon
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