Stanley Fischer Ariel Sharon Benjamin Netanyahu

Former first deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Stanley Fischer (C), poses with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (L) and Israeli Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) for photographs in the Prime Minister's Jerusalem offices on Monday, 17 January 2005. Fischer is in Israel undergoing investigations to take over as Governor of the Bank of Israel, and was questioned yesterday by the Bach committee, which included his plans to immigrate to Israel. Fischer was deputy chairman of Citigroup and was tapped by the prime minister as governor-designate. (Photo by Lior Mizrahi/Getty Images)