The State Comptroller carries out his audit functions
with the assistance of his office staff. The office is
divided into divisions, each responsible for a particular
area of public administration:
(a) government ministries and state institutions;
(b) the defense establishment;
(c) "associations" (mainly government corporations);
(d) local authorities.
The Office of the Ombudsman is a special and separate
unit of the State Comptroller's Office, with a Director
who is appointed by the Knesset Committee for State Audit
Affairs upon the proposal of the Comptroller.
The bureaus of the State Comptroller, the director general,
as well as the staff units (the legal advisor, economic
and engineering advisors, the planning and monitoring
department, editing and publications, and administrative
services) are situated in the head office in Jerusalem.
There are also two regional offices, in Tel Aviv and Haifa.
The staff of the State Comptroller's Office are under
the sole authority of the Comptroller. The State Comptroller
is independent as regards the recruitment and dismissal
of office staff, and it is he who has the authority to
determine staff wages.
In January 1999 the number of staff positions in the State
Comptroller's Office was 526. The number of employees
in professional audit positions was about 310, all university-educated
in a wide variety of areas; in the Office of the Ombudsman
there are about 60 employees with a legal education. There
are also about 150 administrative and clerical staff employed
by the office. |
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