■ Do female comptrollers do a better job than their male counterparts? It would depend on whom you asked. But whether they do or not, the new comptroller at Jerusalem’s Kikar Safra is, like her predecessor Shlomit Rubin, a woman. Rubin, who served as comptroller for more than 10 years and had a reputation for being highly critical of any flaws she detected in the system, has reached retirement age and is stepping down.
The new comptroller is Malka Dror, who was appointed last week after winning the tender published by the municipality. Dror comes to city hall after a long career with Bezeq, where she worked for more than 20 years, serving in a number of executive roles, most recently as company comptroller for four years.
■ While Jerusalemites are fighting City Hall for the preservation of the Natural History Museum in the German Colony, which is threatened by the construction on its site of the new Shalem Center, a legendary building in Tel Aviv is being reconstructed with the aim of recapturing something of the city’s past glory.
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