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Year of birth: 1957.
Education: LL.B.degree, Tel-Aviv University.
Current Position: Founding and Managing Partner, Ben Ari, Fish, Saban & Co.
Practice Areas: Administrative, Higher Education, Estate and Legacy Laws, Real Estate, Arbitration and
Mediation.
Membership: Judge Haim Cohen's Center for Human Rights.
Activities for the Community: Pro Bono Cases at Ben Ari, Fish, Saban & Co. Firm.
Public positions: As of the year 2016, serves as a director at the Israel Consumer Council and as
chairmen of the board of the Family Studies Center at Haifa University. Founder and member of the
Judge Haim Cohen Center for Human Rights Chairman, in the past - Haifa District Committee, the Israel
Bar Association; Member of the Board of Directors and Chairman of the Inspection Committee of The
Israeli News Company Ltd.; Member of the Judge Electing Committee; National Council of the Israel Bar
Association.
Number of Years in Current Position: 20 years.
E-mail:
Ben Ari Rachel
Founding and Managing
Partner
Ben Ari, Fish, Saban & Co.
see page 478
Born: 1969.
Current Position: Mayor, Tiberias Municipality (since November 2013).
Education: M.A., Local Government and Senior Public Administration, Haifa University; B.A., Sociology
and Organizations, Haifa University.
Past Positions: Deputy General Manager, Ofek Engineering Photography; Vice Mayor, Tiberias
Municipality; Chairman, the Opposition of Tiberias Municipality; General Manager, Etgar Personnel and
Placement; Chairman, Haifa University Students Union.
Activities for the Community: Promotion of various activities for the community in the neighborhoods;
Operation of social programs on behalf of youth at risk; Activity in the framework of various ventures
such as Good Deeds Day.
Positions in Public Organizations: Vice Chairman, the Local Government; Chairman, Joint Industrial
Park "Kidmat Galil"; Chairman, the Economic Company for the Development of Tiberias; Chairman, the
Directorate of the Municipal Water Corporation "Mei Reket".
Number of years in Current Position: 3 years.
E-mail:
Ben David Yossi
Mayor
Tiberias Municipality
see page 581
Education: Certified Public Accountant and lawyer, LL.M. in Law from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem
and Georgetown University in Washington and LL.B. in Law and Accounting (with honors) from the
Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Areas of Expertise: Corporate Taxation, International Taxation, Personal Taxation, Securities Taxation,
Tax Planning.
Past Positions: Lawyer at Shekel & Co. Law Office.
Ben Ezra Idit
Firm's Executive
UHY Shtainmetz
Aminoach & Co., CPA.
see page 496
Education: M.B.A., Business and Economics, Major in Macro Economics and Finance, the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem; B.A., Economics,the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Current Positions: CEO, Mekorot Israel's National Water Company; Chairman of the Board, EMS
Mekrorot Projects.
Past Positions: Manager, Africa-Israel operations in Bulgaria (2008-11); Manager, Africa-Israel
operations in southeast Europe (2010-11); Activity Manager, Africa-Israel in Germany (2009-10);
Manager (in practice), Government Companies Authority (Israel) - the Office of Finance (2007); Deputy
Manager, Government Companies Authority - Director of the Monopolies and Structural Changes Unit
(2000-07); Senior Economist, Government Companies Authority (1992-2000).
E-mail:
Ben Hamo Shimon
CEO
Mekorot National Water
Company
see page 545
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