Introducation / Moshe Maor -- The development of the Israeli government offices / Aharon Kfir -- Administrative power in Israel / Eva Etzioni-Halevy -- The functioning of whatever is the Israeli state / Ira Sharkansky -- Controlling government : budgeting, evaluation and auditing in Israel / Robert Schwartz -- Judicial accountability in Israel : the high court of justice and the phenomenon of judicial hyperactivism / Yoav Dotan -- Choosing a regulatory regime : the experience of the Israeli electricity market / Moshe Maor -- The role of state and public audit in safeguarding ethics in the public service : Whose ethics? What ethics? / Asher Friedberg.