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Matanyahu Engelman

Matanyahu Englman is an Israeli accountant and administrator who served as State Comptroller and Ombudsman of Israel from 2019 to 2026.

born 1966State Comptroller of IsraelPresident of EUROSAIDirector general of the Technion

Born: 8 June 1966, Rehovot
Occupation: State Comptroller of Israel
Education: Netiv Meir Yeshiva, Yeshivat Har Etzion, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Matanyahu Engelman was born in 1966 in Rehovot

Englman was born on 8 June 1966 and grew up in Rehovot. His father, Binyamin Englman, was a physicist at the Soreq research center. His maternal grandfather was Yehuda Kiel, who won the Israel Prize in 1992 for his Bible commentary.

He studied at the Netiv Meir high school yeshiva and the Har Etzion hesder yeshiva, and served in the IDF Armored Corps as a tank commander. He earned a BA in economics and accounting and an MA in business administration from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

From 1991 to 1999 he worked as an accountant at Fahn, Kanneh & Co. He then served as deputy director general of the Jerusalem College of Engineering and from 2005 to 2010 as CEO of the Shoham Local Council. He became deputy director general of the Technion in 2010, its director general in 2014, and CEO of the Council for Higher Education in 2018.

The Knesset elected him State Comptroller in June 2019, and he took office on 4 July 2019. He was the first comptroller in over 30 years who was not a judge, and his approach drew criticism from figures in politics and the media. He was elected president of EUROSAI in 2021 and held the post from 2024 to 2026.

He is married to Avigail, a social worker and daughter of former Bank of Israel governor Moshe Mandelbaum. They live in Nof Ayalon and have 6 children.