Well this is a bit interesting....
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/750789.html
Bank Leumi orders internal inquiry over leak of Halutz affair
By Haaretz Service
Greatly embarrassed by the affair, Bank Leumi executives ordered on Tuesday an internal inquiry to determine whether its employees leaked information, which has brought many to call for the Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff's resignation.
Senior sources in the IDF General Staff and field officers who took part in the war in Lebanon said on Tuesday that Chief of Staff Dan Halutz, who went to his bank branch and sold an NIS 120,000 investment portfolio only three hours after two soldiers were abducted by Hezbollah on the northern border, cannot escape resignation.
The sources say there is a clear ethical flaw in the chief of staff's behavior during the hours when soldiers were killed in Lebanon and others were attempting to rescue wounded. Halutz should resign the moment the military completes its pullout from south Lebanon, they said.
At this stage, it does not appear that Halutz intends to resign of his own accord.
Several hours after the July 12 abduction, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert declared war on Hezbollah and Israeli warplanes began bombing targets deep inside Lebanon.
But as the country's political and military echelons met urgently to discuss the possible declaration of war, Halutz went at 12:00 P.M. to sell an investment portfolio, the Ma'ariv newspaper reported on Tuesday.
In response to the report, Halutz confirmed to Ma'ariv that he sold the portfolio on that date and at that time, but denied it had anything to do with the possibility of an imminent war. The IDF chief said he sold the portfolio because of recent losses he took prior to July 12.
"It was my portfolio of shares, on which I had lost NIS 25,000," Halutz told Maariv. "It is true that I sold the portfolio on July 12, 2006, but it is impossible to link that to the war. At the time I did not expect or think that there would be a war."
Halutz described the Ma'ariv article exposing the affair as "malicious and tendentious - I don't intend to be dragged down to such a low level and blemish my integrity. I am a citizen too and have my own economic affairs. This has stained [my reputation] for no reason and is unworthy of any further comment."
MKs call for resignation
No government figures have yet related to the affair but lawmakers from across the political spectrum have called for Halutz's resignation.
National Union-National Religious Party MK Zevulun Orlev called on Attorney General Menachem Mazuz to open an investigation into the affair.
MK Collette Avital of Labor, Likud MK Gilad Erdan and MK Aryeh Eldad of the National Union led calls for Halutz to resign in the wake of the disclosures.
The IDF Spokesperson said that Halutz has a bank account like any other Israeli citizen and needs to perform transactions in the account from time to time. Any attempt to link between personal matters of the chief of staff and Israel's national security is inappropriate, the army said.
No laws broken
The Israel Securities Authority commented that Halutz's act had not broken the Companies Law in respect to insider information. Section H.1 rules that insider information relates only to traded companies, not estimations in respect to the general situation of the market.
However, that in itself does not end the affair. If it turns out that Halutz sold shares in marketing companies or banks, assuming they would be facing hard times during the war, then his actions may be subject to investigation.
