One of Israel’s leading banks is denying that it ever tried to hide the fact that it held dormant accounts from the Nazi era and that payments to claimants over the years were not adjusted for inflation. But Bank Leumi — believed to hold the most Holocaust-era accounts of all Israeli banks — says it is not to blame for the accounts.
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