Northern communities sharply criticized the government after State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman determined in his report that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed in handling northern communities during the war. Moshe Davidovich, head of the Mateh Asher Regional Council, said that "the report is very serious, and there is no doubt that residents of the confrontation line in particular and the north in general were abandoned. The appointed minister Elkin, responsible for the Northern Administration, owes our residents answers." The head of the Upper Galilee Regional Council, Assaf Langlebben, added: "The IDF is working day and night for the security of northern residents, but the Israeli government gave up the Upper Galilee without a fight."