The Director General of the Prime Minister’s Office is charged by the Prime Minister with the management and supervision of all the activities of government offices in the economic, social and civil fields.  Within this framework, the Director General directs his staff and the various departments and sections, including: the economic division, the division for coordination and oversight, and the Prime Minister’s advisers in the fields of planning and development, settlement, society, religious affairs, etc.

The Director General of the Prime Minister’s Office leads and takes part in ushering national projects on the agenda of the Government and the Prime Minister.

Central topics on the Director General’s agenda include:
1. Coordinating the State Budget, while emphasizing the Prime Minister’s agenda.

2. Goals for promoting Governments tasks.

3. Social projects – the “Yaniv” initiative, the Nutrition Project, member of the strategic committee for the Dovrat Report on education reform, A Computer for Every Child, etc.

4. The economic aspects of the Disengagement Plan – heads the exceptions committee and a member of the various committees relating to the implementation of the Disengagement Plan.

5. Economic reforms – privatization of the ports, structural changes in Ma’atz, the gas transmission project, etc.

6. Transportation infrastructure projects, water and electricity markets, Israel Lands Authority (chairman of the exemptions committee).

7. The Local Authorities crisis.

8. Religious councils and structural changes in religious services in continuance of the dismantling of the Ministry of Religious Affairs.

9. Many other subjects.

Parallel with his ongoing work, the Director General is appointed by the Prime Minister, the Government and ministerial committees to head ad-hoc committees or projects which are added to the agenda and which necessitate the personal accessibility of the Prime Minister.

On behalf of the Prime Minister, the Director General coordinates the activity of the Central Bureau of Statistics, the Authority for the Advancement of the Status of Women, the State Archives, the Government Names Committee (settlement names) and the Anti-Drugs Authority.