Former state comptroller Yaakov Maltz dies aged 83

Former Supreme Court justice and state comptroller Yaakov Maltz died Monday at the age of 83.

Born in 1923 in Poland, Maltz immigrated to Israel at the age of two. He grew up in Haifa and studied at the Harieli school in the city. After high school, he studied at the Law School of the Mandate Government.

From 1948-1951, Maltz worked for the Israel Police, before working as an attorney until 1969, and later a lecturer for the law school at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

In 1979, Maltz was appointed as a judge in the Supreme Court, and a year later as state comptroller.

He was subsequently appointed to a well-known investigative committee headed by Judge Landvi, which examined the interrogation methods of the Shin Bet Security Services.

Maltz held the post of state comptroller for a year and a half, and later served on several important investigative committees, including a landmark panel dealing with the structure of the university system in Israel.

The committee produced a report by Maltz that called for sweeping reforms in higher education in Israel.

His funeral is set to take place at 3 P.M. at the Nahlat Yizhak cemetery in Tel Aviv, Army Radio said.

	Yaakov Maltz at his Tel Aviv home in 2002. (Photo: Ariel Shalit)