More than a year after the departure of Yankee Quint, Minister of Finance Avigdor Lieberman today (Thursday) elected a new director for the Government Companies Authority: Adv. Michal Rosenbaum (46). Rosenbaum owns a law firm and serves as the legal advisor of the Association of Municipal Corporations. About more than 70 government companies.
Rosenbaum was selected, as expected, After last Monday she passed the interview stage As well as Guy Samet, director of the Natural Resources Administration at the Ministry of Energy and former director general of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, and Michal Ogolnik, who currently serves as VP of Marketing and Trade at MSD. Among them, Lieberman chose who would hold the position that dominates more than 70 government companies and she was from the outset Lieberman’s preferred candidate. In the past she was also a candidate for the position of State Comptroller. Eva Madjibouz, who was considered a leading candidate along the way, did not surprisingly pass the interview stage.
Among the challenges that Rosenbaum is facing are the privatizations of the Israel Post, the Port of Haifa and the issuance of IAI. Other tasks that lie on the table, behind which there has not been a permanent director for a year and three months, will be improving the indices of government companies that have fallen recently, and staffing the missing boards.
Beyond that, the boards of directors of government companies are half empty. They have about 300 directors, and another 300 directors are missing. The Authority is currently ranking the candidates who have approached the new team, from which 1,100 candidates will be selected who will form the basis for staffing the companies in the coming years.