Text size this story is by  He may be leaving after a taxing
term as Israel's accountant general at the Finance Ministry, but
Yaron Zelekha is not going quietly into the night. "Taxing
reimbursement of medical costs to judges arouses the concern
that the state will have to indemnify them for the tax payment,
and thus in any case have to bear that cost itself," the central
courts management said about the outgoing accountant general's
decision to slap tax on sums that former judges, and other Very
Important Persons, get back from the state for their medical
costs.  Zelekha delivered his directives regarding tax on
reimbursed medical costs just before announcing his resignation.
The courts management argues that the arrangement reimbursing
judges for medical costs dates from the 1950s, and the issue of
paying tax on that "income" never arose before.  The upshot is
that the state covers the medical costs of about 600 former VIPs
and their spouses. The list includes former presidents,
ministers, Knesset members a