Quality Gov't Movement to Mazuz: Leave Zelekha alone - Haaretz

Subscribe to Print Edition

Tue., October 23, 2007 ,

Israel Time: 02:18 (EST+7)

web haaretz.com

Back to Homepage

Print Edition

Diplomacy

Defense

Arts & Leisure

Real Estate

Jewish World

National

Advertising

Magazine

Week's End

Business

Opinion

Rosner's Domain

Anglo File

Books

Travel

del.icio.us

Digg It! new

Quality Gov't Movement to Mazuz: Leave Zelekha alone

By Moti Bassok

Stop interfering with Yaron Zelekha and the state comptroller's injunction protecting him from ouster, the Movement for Quality Government wrote to Attorney General Meni Mazuz yesterday. Meanwhile, Zelekha is forging ahead: yesterday the accountant general cum anti-graft warrior issued a circular to all ministries, saying that from January 1, 2008, they won't be able to pay any government companies or authorities for anything unless there's a formal, signed contract in place following a proper tender process.

Regarding Mazuz, Quality Government argues that he's in a possible conflict of interest because his sister, Yemima Mazuz, may be involved in problems with Bank Leumi's privatization, and in attempts to end Zelekha's term with his contract.

	Advertisement

Last month Finance Minister Roni Bar-On advised Zelekha that he wouldn't be extending his contract beyond October 2007, leading State Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss to issue an injunction protecting Zelekha from ouster. Zelekha argued that his position is not one limited by contract and that he can't be thrown out without cause. Top treasury officials have however banded together against him, claiming that he's so abrasive they can't work with him.

Lindenstrauss for his part extended protection to Zelekha on the ground that he's allegedly being persecuted because he blew the whistle on Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's reportedly improper attempts to skew Bank Leumi's sale in favor of his friends, who ultimately bowed out of the race.

Bookmark to del.icio.us


	Killer father
	Rabin killer's wife says will tell tjheir son his father 'sacrificed himself for his people'.


	Tehran to Tel Aviv
	A Christian-Jewish group is promising dozens of Iranian Jews a better life in Israel.

Today Online


	Bradley Burston: Jewish Republicans - oppressed minority
	Responses: 114


	Report: 180 Jews murdered at 1945 party in Austrian castle
	Responses: 79


	Yossi Melman: Putin is walking a nuclear tighrope in Iran
	Responses: 72


	Haaretz.com TV: Rightists launch video campaign to free Rabin killer Yigal Amir
	Responses: 24


	ANALYSIS: The plot to assassinate Olmert - or the plot that wasn't
	Responses: 59


	Christian-Jewish group bringing dozens of Iran's Jews to Israel
	Responses: 210

More Headlines
23:40 Bar-On urges World Bank to halt cooperation with Gaza projects


00:41 Prisoner dies of wounds sustained in riot at Ketziot Prison


23:06 PM: I couldn't have heard better things from Sarkozy on Iran


23:36 U.S. court declares mistrial on charges Muslim charity had Hamas ties


01:03 Germany set to demand explanations about Nativ activity


23:03 Massive crude oil spill stops traffic on Route 4 near Haifa


16:32 Mazuz deputy: Attorney General won't ask PM to suspend himself


21:51 PM to secondary school teachers: Stop strike immediately


23:53 Report: 180 Jews murdered at party in Austrian castle in 1945


20:54 Hezbollah gave Israel letter from MIA Ron Arad as part of swap deal