In 2020, Shelah was elected head of the State Audit Committee. He also heads a special Knesset committee on the COVID-19 pandemic in Israel. He has criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his handling of the virus and has called him "morally rotten." He has also pressed for a state comptroller investigation into the submarine graft scandal (Case 3000). Shelah also condemned Netanyahu for suggesting that the majority Israeli Arab Joint List is illegitimate and should not be countered in determining the next government, likening Netanyahu's stance to Kahanism and calling it "an official declaration of war on the Jewish and democratic state." Shelah also criticized Netanyahu's coalition partner and Alternate Prime Minister, Benny Gantz, as "weak" and "simply Netanyahu's clerk," pointing to Gantz's lack of input in the government's West Bank annexation plans.