State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman warned on Tuesday that the lack of governance  in the Negev has worsened since his office’s previous report in 2021, leaving thousands of women and children in polygamous family structures, contractors exposed to protection rackets, state infrastructure repeatedly damaged, and government bodies operating without one authority responsible for the response.

The follow-up audit, conducted from August to December 2024 and published on Tuesday, examined whether the state had corrected failures raised in the 2021 report on governance in the Negev. In most areas, the answer was no.

KAN's Mark Weiss spoke with Yoel Zilberman, Founder and CEO of the New Guard organization.

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