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As of late 1988, government employees were recruited through a
merit system, with appointment, promotion, transfer, termination,
training, discipline, and conditions of employment regulated by
law. They were prohibited, especially in the senior grades, from
engaging in partisan politics by the Civil Service (Restriction of
Party Activities and Fund-Raising) Law of 1959. As of 1988, there
were approximately 100,000 government employees, excluding the
Israel Police, teachers (who were technically municipal employees),
civilian workers in the defense establishment, and employees of the
State Employment Service and the autonomous Israel Broadcasting
Authority.
The civil service was headed by a commissioner appointed by the
cabinet and directly responsible to the minister of finance. The
commissioner, who like other senior government officials carried
the rank of director general, had broad responsibility for the
examination, recruitment, appointment, training, and discipline of
civil service personnel. In practice, however, except in the senior
grades, these matters were left to the discretion of the various
ministries. The commissioner was also chairman of the Civil Service
Board, consisting of three directors general representing
government ministries and three members representing the public.
The purpose of the board was to administer the civil service
pension system. In addition, the office of the commissioner
directed the operation of the Central School of Administration in
Jerusalem and furnished administrative services to the Civil
Service Disciplinary Court. Civil servants were automatically
members of the Civil Servants' Union--a practice that has been in
effect since 1949 when the union became part of the General
Federation of Laborers in the Land of Israel (HaHistadrut HaKlalit
shel HaOvdim B'Eretz Yisrael, known as Histadrut--literally,
organization). Any basic changes in the conditions of government
employment must have the concurrence of the union. The mandatory
retirement age for civil service workers was sixty-five, and
pensions ranged from 20 to 70 percent of terminal salary, depending
on length of service.
Data as of December 1988
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