Overview
- A three-judge panel of Dafna Barak‑Erez, David Mintz and Alex Stein issued a conditional order limiting audits that reach policy, strategy or extensive fact-finding.
- An interim order bars summoning witnesses, collecting documents or publishing draft findings until the court receives the comptroller’s response.
- Englman was given a one-month deadline to explain why his office should not be restricted on those issues.
- The pause follows petitions from the Movement for Quality Government and the Military Defense Counsel, with the attorney general backing their arguments.
- Reaction was immediate as Likud MK Avichai Boaron condemned the ruling, and Otzma Yehudit MK Almog Cohen was removed from the hearing after disrupting proceedings.