Editing Dan Halutz (section)

===Investment portfolio scandal===
On August 15, 2006, it was revealed that Halutz sold off his [[investment portfolio]] three hours after two Israeli soldiers were captured by [[Hezbollah]] during the [[Zar'it-Shtula incident]], leading to the war. While this action on the part of the chief of staff is technically legal and is only restricted (through [[blind trust]]eeship) from [[Cabinet of Israel|cabinet members]], the [[State Comptroller of Israel|State Comptroller]] [[Micha Lindenstrauss]] has called to expand it to the chief of staff and to other senior officials. Several [[Knesset]] members called for Halutz to offer his resignation and some members of the [[Israeli General Staff|General Staff Forum]] commented that his resignation appeared inevitable.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/spages/751266.html |title="State Comptroller: the Chief of Staff needs to be prohibited from actions to his investment portfolio" |access-date=August 16, 2006 |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605044353/http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/spages/751266.html |archive-date=June 5, 2011 |language=he}}, ''[[Haaretz]]'', August 16, 2006</ref>

On August 17, Halutz rejected resigning over the affair, adding that the motives behind its publication are "wicked and tendentious. I do not know who is behind this. I do not intend to be dragged to such levels, questioning my integrity." Halutz admitted selling about $28,000 worth of his stocks within three hours of Hezbollah's kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers—the action that sparked the conflict. In a news conference in [[Tel Aviv]], Halutz said the stock sale was unrelated to the outbreak of war and criticized the disclosure of his personal financial information.<ref name=CNN-08-17>{{cite news|title=Lebanese troops deploy as part of U.N. cease-fire |date=August 17, 2006 |publisher=CNN |url=http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/17/mideast.main/index.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080917005134/http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/17/mideast.main/index.html |archive-date=September 17, 2008 }}</ref>
On August 30, a [[Bank Leumi]] probe announced that the source of the leak did not come from its bank.<ref>{{cite news |author=Ram Dagan |url=http://www.haaretz.co.il/misc/1.1548357 |script-title=he:בנק לאומי: מקור ההדלפה על חלוץ - לא מהבנק |language=he |trans-title=Bank Leumi: source of leak on Halutz – not from the bank |newspaper=[[Haaretz]] |date=August 30, 2006}}</ref>