Civil Service

The Regional Labor Court in Jerusalem rejected a former Government Companies Authority employee's claim for salary arrears prior to 2010 due to the statute of limitations, but awarded him 25,000 shekels for emotional distress, ruling that the state failed to protect his rights for over a decade.

Yair Maayan, mayor of Arad, has been convicted of disciplinary offenses. The tribunal ruled that he failed to disclose that his bachelor's degree was from an institution not recognized in Israel when applying for senior civil service positions. Maayan has accepted responsibility for his actions.

Inflation in government ministries and the high number of ministers cause cumbersomeness, duplication, and managerial paralysis. The proposed solution is simple, gradual, and reversible: redistributing work so that ministers function only as policymakers and supervisors, while professional CEOs take the actual reins of management. Guest column.

Women are the majority in the civil service, academia, and many systems – but only 9% of senior executives are women. As long as women who reach the top are still counted as an exceptional event, it is impossible to talk about true equal opportunity.

For years, the civil service in Israel operated based on an ethos of statehood. The politicization of the civil service turns it into a party branch, where functionaries rule whose loyalty is to the party and the appointed minister. If we continue on this path, the day will not be far off when even the Supreme Court President will be dismissed on live television.

The Civil Service Commission's Disciplinary Court has ordered the dismissal of senior Knesset official Shai Berkovich. He was convicted of using his position to procure services from a family-owned company without disclosing a conflict of interest.

A study by Globes and the Israeli Citizens' Empowerment Center reveals that excessive formalization and a cumbersome appeals mechanism in the civil service are blocking the recruitment of qualified professionals. In 2024, there was one appeal for every 4.2 tenders.

In an interview at the National Security Conference of ynet and INSS, the Ra'am chairman argued that two factors prevent Arabs from realizing their citizenship: "One of the factors is the fear of inviting us to the coalition, the second factor is Arab political forces that only ask that the state solve the problem of crime and violence."