the administration's functioning.

Ganot was already serving as Prison Service commissioner, a post he was appointed to in July 2003, when the report was released.

To inflate the number of foreigners supposedly expelled from the country, the IA used to include in its figures tourists from Western countries and Jews who had overstayed their visas, the Comptroller's Report said.

The report slams malfunctions in the IA's activity as well, particularly in its field-work supervision and its cooperation with other government bodies. It blasts the administration for wasting resources, neglecting to enforce the law vis-a-vis the employers of migrant workers and infringing on those workers' rights.

The report found that not all of the laborers who were expelled by air had been made to sign a form waiving their right to appeal theirCourt makes rulingThe committee that vets senior civil service appointments should make a decision on Ganot's planned appointment as police commissioner before the High Court of Justice rules on the matter, the state argued in a submission to the court Thursday.

In so doing, the state effectively asked the court to overrule a decision made earlier this week by the committee chairman, former Supreme Court justice Yaacov Turkel. Turkel said that his panel would not discuss the appointment until the court rules on three petitions against it. The petitions, which the court is due to hear on Sunday, argue that Ganot is unfit for the post because, while serving as a district commander in the police in 1994, he was indicted for bribery, fraud and breach of trust. He