Defense Establishment Comptroller Unit () is an

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unit which supervises and oversees the fitness, preparedness, and legality of the

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

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of the Ministry of Defense, and the

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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'', abbreviated as ( ''Agam'') is the Operations (military staff), operations branch in the Israeli General Staff, General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces. It was established in 1999, al ...

(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

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, who is one of three civilian members in the

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. In August 2002, the Defense Establishment Comptroller was Brigadier-General (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