Emanuel Sharon, a former director-general of the Finance Ministry, has been appointed chairman of Bank Hapoalim following the recent death of Professor Eitan Berglass, the bank’s previous chairman.
Sharon, 63, graduated from the Hebrew University, where he later joined the faculty. He received a doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley.
Sharon currently heads the kibbutz debt-arrangement program. He has served in the past as a senior adviser to the World Bank and in senior Finance Ministry posts culminating in being named director-general.
Hapoalim is Israel’s second-largest bank after Bank Leumi.
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