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Private Organization | 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. | 1902 | Tel Aviv, Israel |
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
Footnotes
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Hersh, Seymour M. The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy. Random House, 1991. Chapter 12. ↩︎