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n the day the last Israeli
army base in Palestinian
Gaza was evacuated, and
autonomy there officially
began, the top news story in Is-
rael was the annual state comp-
troller's report.
It was a reminder that unless
Jews are being killed in the ter-
ritories, the political upheaval
there is a matter of remarkable
indifference to most Israelis.
What concerns them more is the
politics of their own country, what
their government is doing for
them, or to them.
State Comptroller Miriam
Ben-Porat's yearly report on pub-
lic corruption, waste and mis-
management, which comes out
every May, always has a lot to
say on that subject, and it's al-
ways bad.
The latest report, which cov-
ered 1993, was the first to focus
solely on the performance of the
0
ing the same epithet outside
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's
apartment in North Tel Aviv.
In the state comptroller's re-
port issued not long before the
1992 election, former Likud
Housing Minister Ariel Sharon
was found to be the chief male-
factor. Now it was Labor's hous-
ing minister, Binyamin "Fuad"
Ben-Eliezer.
Mr. Ben-Eliezer was consid-
ered, at least until now, one of the
three top candidates to inherit
the party leadership from Mr. Ra-
bin. (The other two are rebel MK
Haim Ramon, who recently won
the election for Histadrut leader,
and Army Chief of Staff Ehud
Barak, who doesn't talk about his
political ambitions but thought
to have formidable ones.)
The charges that Mr. Ben-
Eliezer had played politics with
public money was bad enough —
the state comptroller accused him
Rabin government. Here is how
one of the Labor Party's own
Knesset members, Haggai
Merom, described the 1,190-page
document:
"It includes corruption, viola-
tions of proper administration,
political appointments in a num-
ber of government offices, twist-
ed money transfers ... it's got
everything. The report contains
exactly the same comments
which were noted in the one that
sent the Likud to the opposition
benches."
During the 1992 election cam-
paign, it was Labor Party demon-
strators who chanted, "Crooks go
home!" Now it was right-wing
demonstrators who were holler-
of deliberately spending more
money on projects in Labor-led
cities than in Likud-led ones (al-
though numerous Likud mayors
came to the minister's defense,
for undetermined reasons, and
said this was not so).
However, Ms. Ben-Porat also
found that the housing ministry's
booming highway-construction
campaign — considered the gov-
ernment's most important, most
visible domestic achievement —
was way behind schedule. The
state comptroller also backed up
a complaint that Israelis are
making more and more often
these days; that the government,
particularly Mr. Ben-Eliezer's of-
fice, is largely to blame for the
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