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Nitzan was very proud not only that the majority of its approximately 1,000 state prosecutors are currently women, but that this trend extends to the managerial level. He commented on the fact that in other offices, even where women may make up a majority of rank-and-file personnel, men often still take the top jobs. Not so in the prosecution, he said.Regarding Arab and other minorities in the prosecution, although in absolute terms the numbers are still small, the report said that there has been a 14% increase in minorities over the last year.According to the report, there are now around 160 minorities working for the prosecution, making up about 9% of all employees and about 8% of all prosecutors.Discussing the broad handling of cases, the report said that around 70% of cases were closed within approximately a month of when they were received.This led to a discussion with Nitzan about whether the reasons for closing cases against public officials would remain public after the new “Recommendations Law” on the issue was passed.Nitzan assured questioners that decisions about cases regarding public figures would continue to have enough specific information that omitting the category for closing a case would be insignificant.Taking issue with criticisms that came up during the debate over the Recommendations Law, Nitzan said that the prosecution was unjustifiably criticized for appealing acquittals. He said that, in truth, out of the thousands of cases the prosecution handled recently, only 60 appeals had been filed to the Supreme Court and only nine of those were for acquittal, with the rest being only against the leniency of the sentence.