Certification of the internal activity       at Israel Aircraft Industries       to ISO 9001:2000 The Internal Audit activity at Israel Aircraft Industries is the first Internal Audit activity in Israel that was certified by the Israeli Standards Institute and IQNet (International Certification Network) to the advanced international standard ISO 9001-2000, and is amongst the few in the world certified to this standard. Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) is the largest industrial corporation in Israel, engaged in civilian and military operations in Aviation, Aerospace and Electronics. IAI gained international recognition as a state-of-the-art leader in developing technologies in those areas. The corporations has 14.500 employees, and sales of over $2 billions for the year 2002, including $1.5B in exports to clients in five continents. The corporation consists of 10 headquarter units and five groups managing 20 divisions. In addition the corporation has representations and numerous subsidiaries worldwide. All IAI divisions are certified to ISO 9000 and the corporation is certified to ISO 14000 and ISO 18000. The divisions are in the process of upgrading the certification to ISO 9001-2000 and to AS 9100. As public corporation IAI is required by Israeli law to have an internal auditor. The Internal Audit unit consists of 25 employees, most of whom are university graduates, all trained as internal auditors. The certifications to ISO 9001-2000 indicates that the Internal Audit activity has implemented a quality management system (procedures and methods) according to international standards in order to promote professionalism, credibility and satisfaction of audited entities.