State Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss met with the Knesset State Control Committee Tuesday to discuss his interim report into the IDF's handling of the Home Front during last summer's war in Lebanon.
Earlier Tuesday, the High Court of Justice ruled that Lindenstrauss must refrain from referring to the findings of the report during his meeting with the committee.
State Control Committee convenes (Photo: Gil Yohanan)
Lindenstrauss opened by describing to the MKs the process of compiling the report, including meetings his office employees held with a long list of ministers, generals and officials.
He stated that the material collected in these interviews helped in drawing "an accurate and significant picture of the situation of the home front during the war in the north."
Lindenstrauss stressed that one name was absent from that list of interviewees: That of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who refused to be questioned by the state comptroller.
"Unfortunately, we received a message from the prime minister that we should provide him with a written questionnaire… only two months later did we get the partial material… regrettably, to this day we have not received the answers we were expecting," he stated.