The Bejski Commission ( he, ועדת בייסקי) was a National Commission of Inquiry established by the

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i government on January 7, 1985. Headed by the Supreme Court justice

Moshe Bejski Moshe Bejski (, 29 December 1921 – 6 March 2007) was a Polish-born Israeli Supreme Court Justice and President of Yad Vashem's Righteous Among the Nations Commission. After surviving the Holocaust with the help of Oskar Schindler, Bejski immi ...

, its remit was to examine events surrounding the 1983 Tel Aviv stock market crash, which led to a financial crisis and the

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of most of Israel's major banks. It issued a report on April 16, 1986, which concluded that major Israeli banks had been rigging the price of bank shares over a long period and called for the dismissal or resignation of many of the heads of the Israeli banking system. Moshe Mendlelbaum, then governor of the

Bank of Israel The Bank of Israel ( he, בנק ישראל, ar, بنك إسرائيل) is the central bank of Israel. The bank's headquarters is located in Kiryat HaMemshala in Jerusalem with a branch office in Tel Aviv. The current governor is Amir Yaron. T ...

, resigned; Ernst Jephet of

Bank Leumi Bank Leumi ( he, בנק לאומי, lit. ''National Bank''; ar, بنك لئومي) is an Israeli bank. It was founded on February 27, 1902, in Jaffa as the ''Anglo Palestine Company'' as subsidiary of the Jewish Colonial Trust (Jüdische Kolonia ...

retired with a $5 million agreement; Rafael Recanti refused to resign as head of the Discount Bank, threatening to provoke a banking crisis by withdrawing deposits from the Bank of Israel.''Middle East International'', issue 278, page 3.

Peretz Kidron Peretz Kidron (29 July 1933 – 6 November 2011) was an Israeli writer, journalist and translator. Biography He was born in Vienna, the son of Sara and Herman Kirchenbaum aywho were devoted Zionists and supporters of the Jewish state. His famil ...

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