The Finance Ministry is investigating the decades-long Hevrat Hashmal practice of increasing the professional rank of its employees after retirement and even post-mortem. The rank bears on the pension they or their widows receive.
Hevrat Hashmal retained a power generation monopoly based on the British Mandate’s charter. Though a year ago the government issued the first independent license for power generation, the new power station would have to sell electricity to Hevrat Hashmal.
