Comptroller Report

Israel entered Gaza war without emergency plan for electricity, energy sectors, probe finds

A report by State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman revealed that Israel entered the October 7 war without an updated, fully implemented emergency framework for the electricity and energy sectors.

 View of the Power Station in Hadera, on Janury 27, 2018.
Israel's burial grounds shortage is worse than that predicted by the state comptroller in 2024.

Israel might be on verge of burial crisis with cemeteries struggling for burial space

High Court Justice Daphne Barak-Erez arrives for a hearing on petitions calling to halt or substantially limit State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman’s investigations into the failures surrounding the Hamas's October 7 massacre, December 29, 2025; illustrative.

'Systematic failures': Israel Police carried out illegal surveillance for years, probe finds

Israel Elections: A polling station in Jerusalem, as Israelis vote in their general elections, on March 23, 2021.

February 2024 local elections plagued by widespread financing irregularities, report reveals


Comptroller: Gov’t has failed to help, police Bedouins in the Negev

In a report on the status of the Bedouin population in the Negev, State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman slammed a wide number of government ministries and authorities.

UMM AL-HIRAN, a Bedouin village in the southern Negev.

Comptroller: Israel is a long way from 'one-touch' digital services

The goal of the service is that citizens would only be required to input personal information once into a government database for it to be shared by all government offices.

A person uses a sensor for biometric identification on a smartphone in Berlin

COVID-19: 82% of municipalities had problems implementing national policies

According to the state comptroller, municipalities imposed corona-related fines for some NIS 7.3 million, but barely collected.

A crowd at Machane Yehuda in Jerusalem

Israel suffers from deficiencies in how it handles floods - comptroller

State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman's report saw that seven people drowned in floods in Israel during the 2019-2020 winter season.

Vehicles are submerged in flood waters following heavy rain

Comptroller report: Israel must increase competition in food industry

Israel's food market is over-concentrated in comparison with other markets around the world.

A supermarket in Jerusalem’s Talpiot neighborhood. What would you do if you found a cellphone on a lettuce shelf?

Comptroller: Prosecution, police process to correct investigation abuses is deficient

Prisoners released in huge numbers with little rehabilitation.

POLICE RAID Mea She’arim, April 20

Rabbinical courts must improve waiting times says state comptroller

Several courts significantly exceeding targets for average waiting times for child support, child custody, Rabbinical Courts Administration digital services insufficient.

THE RABBINICAL court of Tel Aviv. It has been said that rabbinical courts allow men to hold back consent to divorce their wives in order to extort the women into agreeing to unfair overall terms.

Comptroller: Land Authority doesn't have a plan

The ILA manages some 93% of Israeli public lands, and is in charge of authorizing the transfer of land rights, rezoning land, and providing permits for building changes.

The shmita (sabbatical) year comes once every seven years. The Torah commands us to stop working the land and let it lie fallow, leaving its yield to any man or animal.

IDF is only 22% protected from drone attacks - comptroller report

IDF intelligence suffering because of the move from North to South.

An Iranian Shahed 171 drone dropping a bomb as part of a military exercise in the Gulf, in Iran

IDF's treatment of mental health 'insufficient' - Comptroller

One in four soldiers uses the army’s mental health services and meet with either a psychiatrist or mental health officer • report also finds deficiencies in the way that IDF handles firing ranges

IDF's mental health officers drill