Disgraced former Israeli Defense Forces chief of staff Dan Halutz, who led the Israeli army during the Lebanon War and who was forced to resign under criticism for his conduct during that war, is currently a student at Harvard Business School. According to a write-up in The Harvard Crimson, Halutz is working on a “program for experienced executives,” and he isn’t the first Israeli military chief to do so.

Halutz’s successor as chief of staff, Gabriel Ashkenazi, also attended the Business School’s Advanced Management Program. He graduated in 2004.

Halutz did not respond to e-mailed requests for comment yesterday, though he released a short statement praising the commission and calling the report a “milestone,” according to a report on Monday in Haaretz, a major Israeli daily newspaper.

“I’m convinced that the members of the commission did their job faithfully and out of a desire to reach the truth,” he said, according to the paper.