The State Comptroller and senior members from his office, together with staff from the Israel Tax Authority, toured sites that had been hit by missiles in Tel Aviv and Bnei Brak
The State Comptroller and Ombudsman, Matanyahu Englman, visited the headquarters of the Compensation Fund in charge of compensating the large number of residents whose property had been damaged following the missile barrages launched from Iran during Operation Rising Lion (23.6.2025).
The Comptroller was also accompanied on the tour by the Director General of the Office of the State Comptroller and Ombudsman, Brig. Gen. (res.) Yishai Vaknin, the Director of the Economics and National Infrastructures Audit Division, Tzachi Saad, and other senior staff from the office. The Director of the Israel Tax Authority, Adv. Shay Aharonovich, and the Director of the Compensation Fund, Amir Dahan, accompanied the Comptroller and his staff on the visit to two sites that had been hit in Bnei Brak and Tel Aviv.
The Comptroller and his staff in a street that was hit in Tel Aviv
The Director of the Israel Tax Authority and the Director of the Compensation Fund presented to the Comptroller and senior members from his office the enormous damage and the challenges facing the Compensation Fund and the solutions provided to the citizens. It was estimated that over 2,000 claims for compensation would be filed in respect of the damage at one site in Tel Aviv alone. In some of the damaged apartments, claims had been filed by both the landlords and the tenants.
In Bnei Brak the Comptroller and senior members from his office also toured the "Aleh" Rehabilitation Center for children with disabilities, which had suffered a severe impact from a missile, and they are currently working hard to rehabilitate it. During the tour, officials from the municipality raised the need to rehabilitate the educational institutions that had been damaged before the start of the next school year on September 1st.
Comptroller Englman at the Aleh School in Bnei Brak
According to the Comptroller, "We have now completed an audit report on the activity of the Compensation Fund. The challenge is very significant in view of the large number of people who have been affected. Effective and prompt actions are required to provide a solution for the large number of people affected. At the same time, it is important to rehabilitate the educational institutions that have been damaged before the start of the next school year".
