Follow Dec. 13, 2020 Economy Minister Amir Peretz announced over the weekend that he would move ahead on a bill to establish of national work accidents prevention authority, six years after a public committee first recommended it. Between 54 and 61 people are killed every year on average in work accidents in Israel. In 2014, the committee noted the numerous bodies dealing with these accidents and the lack of coordination among them, and concluded: “There is no policy in the realm of work safety and no priorities have been set. Each body promotes its own concepts and acts according to its own narrow interests.” Then-State Comptroller Joseph Shapira criticized the delay in establishing the authority in his reports in 2016 and 2018, calling it “inconceivable, serious and unreasonable.”