Slippery Slope

The Ministry of Finance’s Accountant General used a private company – “Limon – Economic Investigations Limited” – to conceal payments to security investigators.

(Hebrew – Haaretz)

Government departments have discontinued all audits of 1,200 Yeshivas and Kollels (Torah schools for married men), financed by the State. The inspection, carried out by inspectors and auditors of the Ministry of Finance, was discontinued in July, by an order of the Accountant General.

(Hebrew)

State Comptroller, Micha Lindenstrauss, states in his annual report that the true value of assets held by the State does not match the official reports, and that the government did not report to the public, and sometimes does not even know, the true value of its assets. The report further states revealed that the process of allocating and registering assets such as facilities and vehicles is flawed, and it is difficult to tell who uses those assets. The Comptroller said that his stuff had already commented 5 years ago on the inaccuracy of asset registration, and the fact that the deficiencies have not been corrected indicates “bad conduct of the Accountant General and government offices.”

(Hebrew)

The Accountant General of the Ministry of Finance, Shuki Oren, said that his office would hire workers based on the nature of their military service, thus harming the chances of employment of workers from the Arab sector.

(Hebrew)