Financial Risk:
Moderate
Score:
60/100
Asset Disposals
Q24
58/100
How effective are controls over the disposal of assets, and is information on these disposals, and the proceeds of their sale, transparent?
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The MOD is legally bound to handle procurement in accordance with the Mandatory Tender Law – 5752-1992 (1) and the Mandatory Tender Regulations (Defence…
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Unless an exemption from tender has been granted, equipment sales are published to the public, and their publication includes specifications on the items that…
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The financial results of disposals are generally accessible to oversight institutions but not to the public (1). The MOD is legally bound to handle…
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Q25
33/100
Is independent and transparent scrutiny of asset disposals conducted by defence establishments, and are the reports of such scrutiny publicly available?
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The State Audit is part of the check and balances and assesses the activities of the Executive and other public bodies. It is responsible…
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Officially the State Comptroller is an independent organ. According to Section 6 of the Basic Law, the State Comptroller as part of the State…
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There is a procedure, set by law, for determining confidentiality, which must be followed in order to keep audit reports confidential. As part of…
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Secret Budgets
Q26
0/100
What percentage of defence and security expenditure in the budget year is dedicated to spending on secret items relating to national security and the intelligence services?
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From interviews we made with former generals in the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) (1), they said this information is classified and they can’t say…
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Q27
75/100
Is the legislature (or the appropriate legislative committee or members of the legislature) given full information for the budget year on the spending of all secret items relating to national security and military intelligence?
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The joint committee of the Finance and Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee is responsible for defence budget oversight (1). The Subcommittee on Intelligence and…
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Q28
63/100
Are audit reports of the annual accounts of the security sector (the military and intelligence services) subject to parliamentary debate?
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Only members of the Subcommittee on Intelligence and Secret Services are getting these reports as part of their duty in this subcommittee. These legislators…
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Only members of the Subcommittee on Intelligence and Secret Services and sometimes the Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee members are allowed to question findings.…
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Q29
58/100
In law, are off-budget military expenditures permitted, and if so, are they exceptional occurrences that are well-controlled? In practice, are there any off-budget military expenditures? If so, does evidence suggest this involves illicit economic activity?
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The 1985 Budget Foundations Law stipulates that the Government may expend in any financial year only the amount specified as expenditure in the Annual…
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The Ministry of Defence has its “own books”on budget/expenditures that are not publicly available (1). The ministry even does double book keeping. All processes…
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There are substantial off-budget military expenditures, but this involves legitimate economic activity. Illicit economic activities are rare cases. No further information could be found…
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Q30
50/100
Are mechanisms for accessing information from the defence sector effective?
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A legal framework exists (according to UNCAC and the OECD Convention) (1) (2), but only to a necessary minimum. There is the Freedom of…
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This indicator is not assigned a score in the GDI. According to one interviewee, the government is in process of revising the classification system…
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The public has access to information from the defence sector to some extent due to security reasons, but it is very limited. In accordance…
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Q31
100/100
Do national defence and security institutions have beneficial ownership of commercial businesses? If so, how transparent are details of the operations and finances of such businesses?
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The Israel Defence Forces and Ministry of Defence do not have beneficial ownership of any commercial businesses. However several businesses are state-owned enterprises, including…
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This indicator is marked Not Applicable as there are no military-owned businesses in Israel. Like any other private company, in particular in the defence…
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Military-owned Businesses
Q32
100/100
Are military-owned businesses subject to transparent independent scrutiny at a recognised international standard?
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There are no military-owned buisnesses in Israel. There are 4 state-owned companies, which operate in the defence market, two of them are global.: Israel…
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This indicator is marked Not Applicable as there are no military-owned businesses in Israel. The Government Companies Authority (GCA) publishes annual reports on state-owned…
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Illegal Private Enterprise
Q33
75/100
Is there evidence of unauthorised private enterprise by military or other defence ministry employees? If so, what is the government’s reaction to such enterprise?
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The government strictly outlaws any unauthorised private enterprise, with appropriate sanctions in place to deal with offenders (1).
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There are some unauthorised private enterprise with a few select individuals or institutions (1). There are several examples (2) (3) (4). However, we did…
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Actual Military Spending
Q77
50/100
Is comprehensive data on actual spending on defence published during the budget year?
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Some data on actual spending is released during the budget year. The Accountant General publishes monthly reports on overnment spending that outline sprogress made…
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Several areas of spending are undisclosed, without a clear justification due to security reasons (1). According to one assessment, the unclassified areas of the…
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Some details of actual spending are published within twelve months by the end of the financial year,(1) including in the Accountant General’s monthly reports…
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Variances between the published budget and actual spend are to some extent explained within the Knesset, but not to the public (1). If the…
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