Bank Leumi
Bank Leumi is Israel's oldest and one of its largest banks, whose American branch board included Walworth Barbour, former U.S. Ambassador to Israel, after his 1973 retirement.
Bank Leumi is an Israeli state bank. After his retirement in 1973, Walworth Barbour, the former American ambassador to Israel, agreed to become a board member of its American branch. This decision, while not illegal, was seen by many State Department officials as posing an obvious conflict of interest.1
Sources
- Hersh, Seymour M. The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy. Random House, 1991. Chapter 12. ↩
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