 In the early years of the 21st century, some of the commission's recommendations were finally put into place.After all four banks were sold by the mid-2000s, the recommendations of the subsequent Bachar commission, which reached the same conclusions regarding separating the banks' depository and investment banking/fund management operations as the Bejski commission, were finally carried out as well.It may be argued that the timing of the crisis may have also had some additional positive effect, as the implementation of the subsequent tough banking regulations and reforms, albeit somewhat belatedly, were put in place just in time to help Israeli banks avert many of the problems experienced by banks in many other Western countries during the Global Financial Crisis of the late 2000s – by limiting Israeli banks' exposure to risky activities.