Defense Establishment Comptroller Unit ( he, יחידת מבקר מערכת הביטחון) is an Israel Defense Forces unit which supervises and oversees the fitness, preparedness, and legality of the

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

Security Forces Security forces are statutory organizations with internal security mandates. In the legal context of several nations, the term has variously denoted police and military units working in concert, or the role of military and paramilitary forces (s ...

' activities, in all its parts. It reports to the

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of the

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, and the Chief of Staff on these issues. __NOTOC__

History

The Defense Establishment Comptroller Unit was established in 1976. It was originally subordinate to what then the

Operations Directorate The Israeli Operations Directorate (, ''Agaf HaMivtza'im'') is a branch in the General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, established in 1999, alongside the regional commands, the air force and navy. Since June 2021, it is headed by Aluf . Task ...

(the most senior

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in the IDF). In 1994, it was placed under the deputy head of the Operations Directorate. In 2004, it was placed under the command of the Deputy Chief of Staff. Unlike other IDF units, the Defense Establishment Comptroller Unit is headed by a

civilian Civilians under international humanitarian law are "persons who are not members of the armed forces" and they are not " combatants if they carry arms openly and respect the laws and customs of war". It is slightly different from a non-combatan ...

, who is one of three civilian members in the General Staff. In August 2002, the Defense Establishment Comptroller was

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(Ret.) Yossi Beinhorn.

References

External links

*Moshe Barda
Summary of the State Comptroller reports, submitted to the Knesset Committee for State Comptrollership
March 2003 *Eliezer Goldberg (Israel's State Comptroller, "The internal comptrollership in the IDF",

', August 31, 2005 {{in lang, he Military units and formations of Israel Comptrollers in Israel