Israel’s Knesset plans to appoint a panel to investigate allegations that the nation’s second-largest bank failed to hand over assets from World War II-era bank accounts to the proper authorities and that deposit boxes were later emptied and the contents never returned to their original owners. Legislator Colette Avital, who heads a parliamentary inquiry into the fate of Holocaust- era assets, has ordered the examination of Bank Leumi, according to the Jerusalem Post.
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