Felus, 55, was selected unanimously among 13 candidates by a committee after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly sought to appoint a confidant to head the organization
Netanyahu took 'highly irregular step' amid apparent effort to politicize Central Bureau of Statistics; Lapid: Trying to harm CBS's independence so he can manipulate the facts
New policy will make it possible to learn far more than is currently known about gaps in wealth, education and other factors between Jews of different ethnicities