| A stinging report on the government’s handling of the Hezbollah rocket barrage against northern Israel during last summer’s war in Lebanon is due next week, public radio reported on Saturday. State Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss will submit an “extremely severe” report to a parliamentary committee on Tuesday after a lengthy investigation into the government’s handling of the north’s rocket-battered residents both before and during the 34-day war, the radio reported. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who saw his approval ratings plummet in the war’s aftermath, refused to be interviewed for the report and declined even to answer written questions submitted by Lindenstrauss, the radio report said. |