1st Edition
Israel's Public Administration Structure, Functions and Needed Reforms
Preface; Introduction 1. Civil service: A comparative perspective 2. The public sector in Israel broadly defined 3. The establishment and legal framework of the civil service 4. The functioning of the Israeli civil service 5. Regulation 6. Civil servants 7. The senior echelons 8. The budgeting process 9. Oversight and control of the civil service 10. The culture of administration in Israel 11. Privatization: A reform that was implemented 12. Public administration reforms 13. Case study: The COVID-10 crisis in Israel, 2019-2021
Biography
Itzhak Galnoor is former Head of Israel’s Civil Service Commission and Herbert Samuel Professor of Political Science (Emeritus) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has written extensively on Israeli governance and democracy, political institutions, and state-society relations.
Nissim Cohen is a Full Professor in the Division of Public Administration and Policy, School of Political Sciences, University of Haifa. His research focuses on policy entrepreneurship, street-level bureaucracy, and public administration reform.
