The State Comptroller and his team toured buildings destroyed in Bat Yam and Ramat Gan following the Iranian missile attack: “We identified highly significant gaps in protection and shelter infrastructure.”
State Comptroller and Ombudsman Matanyahu Englman toured today (June 15, 2025) buildings that were destroyed by Iranian missile strikes in Bat Yam and Ramat Gan. Accompanying the Comptroller: Director General of his office, Brig. Gen. (res.) Yishai Vaknin; Director of the Ombudsman Division, Adv. Carmit Fanton; and Head of the Defense System Audit Division, Brig. Gen. (res.) Eitan Dahan.
According to the Comptroller: “In 2020, we published a highly critical report on gaps in civil protection across Israel. At the time, it was found that nearly 2.6 million residents were living without standard protective shelters. Moreover, budgets allocated to the issue were not utilized, and government programs remained unfunded.”
State Comptroller Englman at the missile impact site in Bat Yam
Recently, we conducted a follow-up report in light of the Iron Swords War. I am currently standing near the missile impact site in Bat Yam, which illustrates the immense damage caused to an entire neighborhood—seven people killed, three missing, and 200 injured.
According to another report we recently completed on protection and shelter infrastructure in local authorities—whose draft has already been submitted to the Prime Minister, the Home Front Command, and the Minister of National Security—the gaps are highly significant: millions of citizens are left without protective shelter, many public shelters are non-functional, there is no mapping of the population lacking access to secure spaces, and there is no preparedness to provide support to citizens once they are affected.
State Comptroller at the missile impact site in Ramat Gan
I call on the Prime Minister, the Minister of National Security, the Minister of Defense, the Home Front Command, and all relevant authorities: We are in the midst of a war against Iran. It is critically important to ensure that the home front is properly addressed. A strong home front is essential for the State of Israel.
