EX-1.2 2 exhibit_1-2.htm EXHIBIT 1.2 exhibit_1-2.htm


Exhibit 1.2
 
THE COMPANIES ORDINANCE
 
COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARES
 
AMENDED ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION
 
Of
 
TAT TECHNOLOGIES LTD
 
INTERPRETATION
 
1.
In these Articles the words standing in the first column of the table next hereinafter contained shall bear the meanings set opposite them respectively in the second column thereof, if not inconsistent with the subject or context:
 
Words
Meanings
The Company
The above-named Company.
   
Companies Ordinance
The Companies Ordinance (new version) 1983 ("The Companies Ordinance ") as amended and as amended from time to time including any law or statute replacing it.
   
The Companies Law or The Israeli Companies Law
 
The Israeli Companies Law 5759-1999 ("The Companies Law") as amended and as amended from time to time including any law or statute replacing it.
   
The Statutes
 
The Companies Ordinance and/or The Companies Law and/or The Securities Law and/or every other Law for the time being in force and affecting the Company.
   
These Articles
These Articles of Association or as shall be altered from time to time by the General Meeting of the shareholders of the Company.
   
The Office
The registered office for the time being of the Company.
   
The Seal
The rubber stamp of the Company.
   
The Securities Law
The Israeli Securities Law 5728-1968 ("The Securities Law") as amended from time to time including any law or statute replacing it.
   
Month
Gregorian month.
   
The Record Date
The record date as determined pursuant to the provision of Article 55(a) of these Articles
   
Writing
Printing, lithography, photography, and any other mode or modes of representing or reproducing words in a visible form.
   
Special Resolution
In accordance with the Companies Ordinance, decision of 75% of the General Meeting of the shareholders of the Company.
 
 
 

 
 
Words importing the singular only shall include the plural, and vice versa.
 
Words importing the masculine gender shall include the feminine gender; and words importing person shall include corporations.
 
Subject as aforesaid, any words or expressions defined in the Statutes shall, except where the subject or context forbids, bear the same meanings in these Articles.
 
The Regulations in Table "A" in Schedule II to the Companies Ordinance shall not apply to the Company
 
THE PURPUSE OF THE COMPANY
 
2.
 The Company may engage in any lawful occupation.
 
THE LIABILTY OF SHAREHOLDERS
 
3.
The liability of the shareholders is limited, as determined in the Companies Law. For this purpose, each shareholder is responsible for repayment of the nominal value of shares. In the event that the Company issued shares in exchange for lower nominal value, the responsibility of each shareholder will be limited to the repayment of the amortized amount of the consideration for each share assigned to him as aforesaid.
 
NON-PRIVATE COMPANY
 
4.
The Company is a non-private company; consequently:
 
 
(a)
No limitations will apply to the transfer of its shares;
 
(b)
The number of shareholders is unlimited;
 
(c)
The company may issue to the public shares, debentures or any other securities.
 
5.
The share capital of the company is 9,000,000 (Nine Million) New Israeli Shekels, divided into 10,000,000 (Ten Million) Ordinary Shares of a nominal value of 0.9 New Israeli Shekel (NIS 0.9) each, all ranking pari-passu.
 
SHARES
 
6.
Subject to these Articles or to the terms of any resolution creating new shares, the unissued shares from time to time shall be under the control of the Board of Directors, who shall have the power to allot shares or otherwise dispose of them to such persons, on such terms and conditions, and either at par or at a premium, or, subject to the provisions of the Statues, at a discount, and at such times, as the Board of Directors may think fit, and the power to give to any person the option to acquire from the Company any shares, either at par or at a premium, or, subject as aforesaid, at a discount, during such time and for such consideration as the Board of Directors may think fit.
 
7.
If two or more persons are registered as joint holders of any share, any one of such persons may give effectual receipts for any dividends or other moneys in respect of such share.
 
8.
No person shall be recognized by the Company as holding any share upon any trust, and the Company shall not be bound by or required to recognize any equitable, contingent, future, or partial interest in any share or any right whatsoever in respect of any share other than an absolute right to the entirety thereof in the registered holder.
 
9.
Every member shall be entitled without payment to receive after allotment or registration of transfer (unless the conditions of issue provide for a longer interval) one certificate under the Seal for all the shares registered in his name, specifying the number and denoting numbers of the shares in respect of which it is issued and the amount paid up thereon. Provided that in the case of joint holders the Company shall not be bound to issue more than one certificate to all the joint holders, and delivery of such certificate to one of them shall be sufficient delivery to all. Every certificate shall be signed by one Director and countersigned by the Secretary or some other person nominated by the Directors for the purpose.
 
 
- 2 -

 
 
10.
If any share certificate shall be defaced, worn out, destroyed or lost, it may be renewed on such evidence being produced, and such indemnity (if any) being given as the Directors shall require and (in case of defacement or wearing out) on delivery up of the old certificate, and in any case on payment of such sum not exceeding NIS 5 (Five New Israeli Shekels) as the Directors may from time to time require.
 
11.
[Deleted]
 
12.
[Deleted]
 
13.
[Deleted]
 
CALLS ON SHARES
 
14.
No member shall be entitled to receive any dividend or to exercise any privileges as a member until he shall have paid all calls for the time being due and payable on every share held by him, whether alone or jointly with any other person, together with interest and expenses (if any). The shareholders who are entitled to a dividend shall be the holders of shares on the date of the resolution regarding the dividend or on a later date if a later date is prescribed in such resolution.
 
15.
 
 
(a)
If under the conditions of the issuance of shares there is no fixed date for the payments due therefor, the Directors may from time to time make such calls upon the members in respect of all moneys then unpaid on shares possessed by them and every member will pay the sum demanded of him at the place and time appointed by the Directors, provided that fourteen days notice as to the place and date of payment was served on him. The Directors may revoke or postpone any call.
 
 
(b)
A call shall be deemed to have been made at the time when the Resolution of the Directors authorizing such call was passed.
 
 
(c)
The joint holders of a share shall be jointly and severally liable for the payment of all calls and installments in respect thereof.
 
 
(d)
If before or on the day appointed for payment thereof, a call or installment payable in respect of a share is not paid, the holder or allottee of the share shall pay interest on the amount of the call or Installment at such rate not exceeding the debitory rate prevailing at the largest Israeli commercial bank on the day appointed for the payment referred to, as the Directors shall fix, from the day appointed for payment thereof to the time of actual payment, but the Directors may waive payment of such interest wholly or in part.
 
16.
 
 
(a)
Any sum which by the terms of allotment of a share is made payable upon allotment or at any fixed date, whether on account of the amount of the share or by way of premium, shall for all purposes of these Articles be deemed to be a call duly made, and payable on the date fixed for payment, and in case of non-payment the provisions of these Articles as to payment of interest and expenses, forfeiture and the like, and all other relevant provisions of these Articles shall apply as if such sum were a call duly made and notified as hereby provided;
 
 
(b)
The Directors may at the time of allotment of shares make arrangements on the issue of shares for a difference between the holders of such shares in the amount of calls to be paid and in the time of payment of such call.
 
17.
The Directors may, if they think fit, receive from any member willing to advance the same, all or any part of the monies due upon his shares beyond the sums actually called up thereon; and upon the moneys so paid in advance, or so much thereof as exceeds the amount for the time being called up on the shares in respect of which such advance has been made, the Directors may pay or allow such interest as may be agreed by them and the Company.

 
- 3 -

 
 
TRANSFER OF SHARES
 
18.
No transfer of shares shall be registered unless a proper writing or instrument of transfer (in any customary form or any other form satisfactory to the Board of Directors) has been submitted to the Company (or its transfer agent), together with the share certificate(s) and such other evidence of title as the Board of Directors may reasonably require. Until the transferee has been registered in the Register of Members in respect of the shares so transferred, the Company may continue to regard the transferor as the owner thereof.
 
19.
The Directors may refuse, without giving any reasons therefor, to register any transfer of shares where the Company has a lien on the share, constituting the subject matter of the transfer, but fully paid-up shares may be transferred freely and such transfers do not require the approval of the Directors.
 
All instruments of transfer shall remain in the custody of the Company but any such instrument which the Directors refused to register shall be returned to the person from whom it was received, if such request be made by him.
 
20.
The Transfer Records and the Register of Members and Debenture Holders (if any) and Debenture Stock Holders (if any) and other securities (if any) of the Company may be closed during such time as the Directors may deem fit, not exceeding in the aggregate, thirty days in each year. To avoid any doubts, the determination of a Record Date shall not constitute nor be deemed as a closing of the above records or registers.

TRANSMISSION OF SHARES
 
21.
In the case of the death of a member, or a holder of a debenture, the survivor or survivors, where the deceased was a joint holder, and the executors and/or administrators and/or the legal heirs of the deceased where he was a sole or only surviving holder, shall be the only persons recognized by the Company as having any title to his shares or his debentures, but nothing herein contained shall release the estate of a deceased joint holder form any liability in respect of any share or any debenture jointly held by him.
 
22.
Any person who becomes entitled to a share or a debenture in consequence of the death or bankruptcy of any member, may, upon producing such evidence of title as the Directors shall require, with the consent of the Directors, be registered himself as holder of the share or the debenture or, subject to the provisions as to transfers herein contained, transfer the same to some other person.
 
23.
A person entitled to a share or a debenture by transmission shall be entitled to receive, and may give a discharge for, any dividends or interest or other moneys payable in respect of the share or debenture, but he shall not be entitled in respect of it to receive notices of, or to attend or vote at meetings of the Company, or, save as aforesaid, to exercise any of the rights or privileges of a member or a holder of a debenture unless and until he shall become a member in respect of the share or a holder of the debenture.

FORFEITURE OF SHARES
 
24.
If any member fails to pay the whole or any part of any call or installment of a call on or before the day appointed for the payment thereof, the Directors may at any time thereafter, during such time as the call or installment or any part thereof remains unpaid, serve a notice on him, or on the person entitled to the share by transmission requiring him to pay such call or installment, or such part thereof as remains unpaid, together with any expenses incurred by the company by reason of such non-payment.
 
25.
The notice shall name a further day (not earlier than the expiration of thirty days from the date of the notice) on or before which such call or installment, or such part as aforesaid, and all interest and expenses that have accrued by reason of such non-payment, is to be made, and shall state that In the event of non-payment at or before the time and at the place appointed, the shares in respect of which such call was made will be liable to be forfeited.
 
 
- 4 -

 
 
26.
If the requisitions of any such notice as aforesaid are not complied with, any share in respect of which such notice has been given may at any time thereafter, before the payment required by the notice has been made, be forfeited by a resolution of the Directors to that effect. A forfeiture of shares shall include all dividends in respect of the shares not actually paid before the forfeiture, notwithstanding that they shall have been declared.
 
27.
Notwithstanding any such forfeiture as aforesaid, the Directors may, at any time before the forfeited share has been otherwise disposed of, annul the forfeiture upon the terms of payment of all call and interest due upon and expenses incurred in respect of the shares and upon such further terms (if any) as they shall see fit.
 
28.
Every share which shall be forfeited shall thereupon become the property of the Company and may be either cancelled or sold or re-allotted or otherwise disposed of either to the person who was before forfeiture the holder thereof, or entitled thereto, or to any other person, upon such terms and in such manner as the Directors shall think fit. Each Forfeited share that hasn’t been sold or canceled, will become dormant Share, as defined in the Israeli Companies law, and will not confer any rights, so long that such shares is owned by the Company.
 
29.
A member whose shares have been forfeited shall, notwithstanding, be liable to pay to the Company all calls made and not paid on such shares at the time of forfeiture, and interest thereon to the date of payment, in the same manner in all respects as if the shares had not been forfeited and to satisfy all (if any) the claims and demands which the Company might have enforced in respect of the shares at the time of forfeiture, without any deduction or allowance for the value of the shares at the time of forfeiture.
 
30.
The forfeiture of a share shall involve the extinction at the time of forfeiture of all interest in and all claims and demands against the Company in respect of the share, and all other rights and liabilities incidental to the share as between the member whose share is forfeited and the Company, except only such of those rights and liabilities as are by these Articles expressly saved, or as are by the Statutes given or imposed in the case of past members.
 
31.
A sworn declaration in writing that the declarant is a Director of the Company, and that a share has been duly forfeited in pursuance of these Articles and stating the date upon which it was forfeited, shall, as against all persons claiming to be entitled to the share adversely to the forfeiture thereof, be conclusive evidence of the facts therein stated, and such declaration, together with the receipt of the Company for the consideration (if any) given for the share on the sale or disposition thereof, and a certificate of proprietorship of the share under the Seal delivered to the person to whom the same is sold or disposed of, shall constitute a good title to the share, and such person shall be registered as the holder of the share and shall be discharged from all calls made prior to such sale or disposition, and shall not be bound to see to the application of the purchase money (if any) nor shall his title to the share be affected by any act, omission or irregularity relating to or connected with the proceedings in reference to the forfeiture, sale, re-allotment or disposal of the share.

LIEN
 
32.
The Company shall have a first and paramount lien upon all shares (which are not fully paid up) registered in the name of any member, either alone or jointly with any other person, for his debts, liabilities and engagements, whether solely or jointly with any other person, to or with the Company, whether the period for the payment, fulfillment or discharge thereof shall have actually arrived or not, and such lien shall extend to all dividends from time to time declared in respect of such shares; but the Directors may at any time declare any share to be exempt wholly or partially from the provisions of this Article.
 
33.
The Directors may sell the shares subject to any such lien at such time or times and in such manner as they shall think fit, but no sale shall be made until such time as the moneys in respect of which such lien exists, or some part thereof, are or is presently payable, or the liability or engagement in respect of which such lien exists is liable to be presently fulfilled or discharged, and until a demand and notice in writing stating the amount due or specifying the liability or engagement and demanding payment or fulfillment or discharge thereof and giving notice of intention to sell in default shall have been served on such member, or the persons (if any) entitled by transmission to the shares, and default in payment, fulfillment or discharge shall have been made by him or them for fourteen days after such notice.
 
 
- 5 -

 
 
34.
The net proceeds of such sale shall be applied in or towards satisfaction of the amount due to the Company, or of the liability or engagement, as the case may be, and the balance (if any) shall be paid to the member or the person (if any) entitled by transmission to the shares so sold.
 
35.
Upon any such sale (i.e., following forfeiture or foreclosing on a lien for and the bona fide use of the powers granted with respect thereto) the Directors may enter the purchaser's name in the Register as holder of the shares and the purchaser shall not be bound to see to the application of the purchase money, nor shall his title to the shares be affected by any irregularity or invalidity in the proceedings in reference to the sale.

SHARE WARRANTS TO BEARER
 
36.
 
 
(a)
The Company may, subject to the provisions of the Statutes, with respect to fully paid up shares, issue warrants (hereinafter called "share warrants"), stating that the bearer is entitled to the shares therein specified and may provide by coupons or otherwise for the payment of dividends on the shares included in such warrants. The Directors may determine and from time to time vary, the conditions upon which share warrants shall be issued, and in particular the conditions upon which a new share warrant or coupon will be issued in the place of one worn out, defaced, lost or destroyed, or upon which a share warrant may be surrendered, and the name of the bearer entered in the Register in respect of the shares therein specified. The bearer of a share warrant shall be subject to the conditions for the time being in force, whether made before or after the issue of such share warrant.
 
No new share warrant or coupon shall be issued in the place of one which has been lost or destroyed unless it shall have been established to the satisfaction of the Directors that the same has been lost or destroyed.
 
 
(b)
A share warrant shall entitle the bearer to the shares included in it, and such shares shall be transferred by the delivery of the share warrant and the provisions of these Articles with respect to transfer and transmission of shares shall not apply thereto.
 
 
(c)
The bearer of a share warrant may at any time deposit the warrant at the Office or at any other place, if any, indicated by the Directors, and after the expiration of two clear days from the time of deposit, and so long as the warrant remains so deposited, the depositor shall have the same right of signing a requisition for calling a meeting of the Company, and of attending and voting and exercising the other privileges of a member at any meeting held, as if his name was inserted in the Register as the Holder of the shares included in the deposited warrant. Not more than one person shall be recognized as depositor of a share warrant.
 
Upon prior notice in writing of two days the Company shall return to the depositor the share warrant deposited by him.
 
 
(d)
Subject as otherwise expressly provided herein, no person shall, as bearer of a share warrant, sign a requisition for calling a Meeting of the Company, or attend, or vote, or exercise any other privilege of a member at a Meeting of the Company and said person shall not be entitled to receive any notices from the Company.
 
But the bearer of a share warrant shall be a member of the Company and entitled in all other respects to the same privileges and advantages as if he were named in the Register as the holder of the shares included in the warrant.
 
 
- 6 -

 

ALTERATIONS OF CAPITAL
 
37.
The General Meeting of the shareholders of the Company may from time to time:
 
 
(a)
Consolidate and divide all or any of its share capital into shares of larger amount than its existing shares; or
 
 
(b)
Cancel any shares not taken or agreed to be taken by any person; or
 
 
(c)
Divide its share capital or any part thereof into shares of smaller amount than is fixed by its Articles of Association by sub-division of its existing shares or any of them, subject, nevertheless, to the provisions of the Statutes, and so that as between the resulting shares, one or more of such shares may by the Resolution by which such sub-division is effected be given any preference or advantage as regards dividend, capital, voting or otherwise over the others or any other shares; or
 
 
(d)
Reduce its share capital and any capital redemption reserve fund in any way that may be considered expedient and, in particular exercise all or any of the powers conferred by Section 151 of the Companies Ordinance, or any statutory modification thereof.
 
38.
The Company may, subject to applicable law, issue redeemable shares and redeem the same

INCREASE OF CAPITAL
 
39.
The General Meeting of the shareholders of the Company may from time to time , whether all the shares for the time being authorized shall have been issued or all the shares for the time being issued shall have been fully called up or not, increase its share capital by the creation of new shares; such new capital to be of such amount and to be divided into shares of such respective amounts and (subject to any special rights for the time being attached to any existing class of shares) to carry such preferential, deferred or other special rights (if any) or to be subject to such conditions or restrictions (if any) in regard to dividend, return of capital, voting or otherwise as the General Meeting deciding upon such increase directs.
 
40.
Except so far as otherwise provided by or pursuant to these Articles or by the conditions of issue, any new share capital shall be considered as part of the original ordinary share capital of the Company, and shall be subject to the same provisions of these Articles with reference to the payment of calls, lien, transfer, transmission, forfeiture and otherwise as the original share capital.

BORROWING POWERS
 
41.
The Board of Directors may from time to time, in its discretion, cause the Company to borrow or secure the payment of any sum or sums of money for the purposes of the Company, and may secure or provide for the repayment of such sum or sums in such manner, at such times and upon such terms and conditions in all respects as it thinks fit, and, in particular, by the issuance of bonds, perpetual or redeemable debentures, debenture stock, or any mortgages, charges, or other securities on the undertaking, or, the whole or any part of the property of the Company, both present and future, including units uncalled or called but unpaid capital for the time being.

GENERAL MEETINGS
 
42.
An Annual General Meetings shall be held at least once in every calendar year at such time, not being more than fifteen months after the holding of the last preceding Annual General Meeting and at such place as may be determined by the Directors. Such Annual General Meetings shall be called "Ordinary Meetings" and all other General Meetings of the Company shall be called "Extraordinary Meetings". The Annual General Meeting shall receive and consider the Directors' Report, the Profit and Loss Account and Balance Sheet, shall elect Directors, appoint Auditors and transact any other business which under these Articles or by the Statutes are to be transacted at a General Meeting of the Company.
 
 
- 7 -

 
 
43. 
In accordance with the Israeli Companies Law and subject to the provisions of the Statutes, as may be from time to time in effect, the Directors may, whenever they think fit, and upon a demand of two directors or one quarter of the directors in office at that time or upon demand of one or more shareholders, holding at least five percent (5%) of the issued shares and one percent (1%) of the voting rights or holding five percent (5%) of the voting rights in the Company (hereinafter: "the Requisitionists") , shall convene an Extraordinary Meeting, in the manner hereinafter mentioned, to such members as are, under the provisions of these Articles, and particularly under the provisions of article 53(a), entitled to receive notice from the company. Any such requisition must state the objects for which the meeting is to be called, be signed by the Requisitionists, and must be deposited at the office. Such requisition may consist of several documents in like form, each signed by one or more requisitionists. If the Directors do not, within twenty-one days from the date of the deposit of such requisition, proceed to convene a Meeting, the party demanding the convening of the meeting, and, in the case of shareholders, that portion of them that has more than half of their voting rights, may convene the meeting themselves, provided that the meeting shall not take place more than three months after the said demand is submitted, and in accordance with the Companies Law.
 
Subject to the provisions of the Statutes as may be from time to time in effect, the agenda of the General Meeting will be determined by the Board and it will include also topics which are required to be converted at an Extraordinary Meetings as mentioned above. Also, one or more shareholder, holding one percent (1%) of the voting rights in a General Meeting, may request that the Board include topics on the agenda of a General Meeting, provided that such topics are suitable to be discussed at a General Meeting.
 
44.
 
 
(a)
Subject to the provisions of the Statutes as may be from time to time in effect, and the provisions herein, the Company will publish a notice regarding the General Meeting specifying the place, the day and the hour of meeting and in the case of special business the general nature of such business, shall be given in the manner hereinafter mentioned, to such members as are, under the provisions of these Articles, entitled to receive notices from the Company.
 
 
(b)
Subject to the provisions of the Statutes as may be from time to time in effect, whenever the Board of Directors is required to convene an Extraordinary Meeting it shall convene such meeting within twenty-one days' on the date designated in the notice provided that the meeting date will be no later than thirty-five days from the date of publication of the notice. Notices shall be given by post or by personal delivery to every registered shareholder of the Company, entitled to receive notice from the Company under the provisions of these Articles, and particularly under the provisions of article 53(a), to his address as described in the Register of Members of the Company or such other address as designated by him in writing for this purpose. Provided that the accidental omission to give such notice to or the non-receipt of such notice by any such member shall not invalidate any resolution passed or proceeding had at any such meeting. And, with the consent of all the members for the time being entitled to receive notices of meetings, a meeting may be convened upon a shorter notice or without notice and generally in such manner as such members may approve. Such consent may be given at the meeting or retrospectively after the meeting.
 
 
(c)
Notice with respect to any General Meeting shall be regarded proper and sufficient if it specifies in a general manner the general nature of the matter to be transacted at the General Meeting, or, without making the procedure hereinafter set forth mandatory, if it specifies that the draft of the resolution to be proposed to the General Meeting is available for inspection at a designated place during a designated time period.

PROCEEDINGS AT GENERAL MEETINGS
 
45.
No business shall be transacted at any General Meeting unless a quorum is present when the meeting proceeds to business. The quorum at any shareholders Meeting shall be two members present in person or by proxy, holding or representing at least one third of the total voting rights in the Company on the Record Date.
 
 
- 8 -

 
 
46.
If within half an hour from the time appointed for the holding of a General Meeting a quorum is not present, the meeting, shall stand adjourned to the same day in the next week at the same time and place or any time and hour as the Directors shall designate and state in a notice to the members, and if, at such adjourned meeting, a quorum is not present within half an hour from the time appointed for holding the meeting, two members present in person or by proxy shall be a quorum.
 
47.
The Chairman (if any), chosen as such among the Directors, shall preside at every General Meeting, but if there shall be no such Chairman or if at any meeting he shall not be present within fifteen minutes after the time appointed for holding the same, or shall be unwilling to act as Chairman, the members present shall choose a Director, or, If no Director be present, or if all the Directors present decline to take the Chair, they shall choose a member present to be Chairman of the meeting.
 
48.
The Chairman may, with the consent of any meeting at which a quorum is present, and shall, if so directed by the meeting, adjourn any meeting from time to time and from place to place as the meeting shall determine. Whenever a meeting is adjourned pursuant to the provisions of this Article for seven days or more, notice of the adjourned meeting shall be given to the members entitled to receive notice from the Company under the provisions of these Articles, and particularly under the provisions of article 55(a), in the same manner as in the case of an original meeting. Save as aforesaid, no member shall be entitled to any notice of an adjournment or of the business to be transacted at an adjourned meeting. No business shall be transacted at any adjourned meeting other than the business which might have been transacted at the meeting from which the adjournment took place.
 
VOTES OF MEMBERS
 
49.
Subject to the provisions of Statutes as may be from time to time in effect, all resolution by any General Meeting of the company, , including but not limited to amendment of the Memorandum of Association of the Company or these Articles, shall be deemed adopted if approved by the holders (in aggregate) of the majority votes represented at such general meeting and participating in the vote (excluding any abstaining votes) in person or by proxy.
 
50.
At all General Meetings, a resolution put to a vote at the meeting shall be decided on a show of hands,  and a declaration by the Chairman of the meeting that a resolution has been carried, or has been carried unanimously or by a particular majority, or lost, or not carried by a particular majority, shall be conclusive, and an entry to that effect in the Minute Book of the Company shall be conclusive evidence thereof, without proof of the number or proportion of the votes recorded in favor of or against such resolution. As mentioned below, votes may be given also by proxy.
 
51.
[Deleted]
 
52.
[Deleted]
 
53.
Subject to the provisions of the Statutes, as may be from time to time in effect:
 
 
(a)
The Board of Directors may fix a Record Date to determine the shareholders entitled to notice of and/or to vote at any meeting of shareholders or any adjournment thereof (the "Meeting"), which Record Date shall not precede the date upon which the resolution fixing the Record Date is adopted by the Board of Directors, and which Record Date shall not be more than twenty one (21) nor less than four (4) days before the date of the Meeting. Notwithstanding the above, in a Meeting that the agenda includes also topics listed in Section 87(a) to the Israeli Companies Law, the Record Date shall not be more than forty days (40) nor less than twenty eight (28) days before the Meeting unless allowed otherwise by the Statutes.. The Record Date for determining shareholders entitled to notice of or to vote at the meeting shall be at the close of business on the day next preceding the day on which such board meeting is held. A determination of shareholders of record entitled to notice or to vote at a meeting of shareholders shall apply to any adjournment of the meeting; providing, however that the Board of Directors may fix a new Record Date to the adjournment meeting.
 
 
- 9 -

 
 
 
(b)
Every member shall have one vote for each share of which he is the holder.
 
54.
If any member be a lunatic, idiot, or non compos mentis, he may vote by his committee, receiver, curator bonis or other legal curator and such last mentioned persons may give their votes either personally or by proxy.
 
55.
If two or more persons are jointly entitled to a share, then in voting upon any question the vote of the senior who tenders a vote, whether in person or by proxy, shall be accepted to the exclusion of the votes of the other registered holders of the share, and for this purpose seniority shall be determined by the order in which the names stand in the Register of Members.
 
56.
Votes may be given either personally or by proxy. A proxy does not need to be a member of the Company.
 
57.
 
 
(a)
The instrument appointing a proxy shall be in writing in the usual common form, or such form as may be approved by the Directors, and shall be signed by the appointor or by his attorney duly authorized in writing, or, if the appointor is a corporation, the corporation shall vote by its representative, appointed by an instrument duly signed by the corporation.
 
 
(b)
[Deleted]
 
58.
A vote given in accordance with the terms of an instrument of proxy shall be valid notwithstanding the previous death or insanity of the principal or revocation of the proxy or transfer of the share in respect of which the vote is given unless an intimation in writing of the death, revocation or transfer shall have been received at the Office before the commencement of the meeting or adjourned meeting at which the proxy is used.
 
59.
The instrument appointing a proxy, together with the power of attorney or other authority (if any) under which it is signed or a notarially certified or office copy of such power of attorney, shall be deposited at the Office or at such other place or places, whether in Israel or elsewhere, as the Directors may from time to time either generally or in a particular case or class of cases prescribe, at least forty-eight hours before the time appointed for holding the meeting or adjourned meeting at which the person named in such instrument proposes to vote; otherwise the person so named shall not be entitled to vote in respect thereof; but no instrument appointing a proxy shall be valid after the expiration of twelve months from the date of its execution.
 
60.
Subject to the provisions of the Statutes, a resolution in writing signed by all the members, in person or by proxy, for the time being entitled to vote at General Meeting of the Company shall be as valid and as effectual as a resolution adopted by a General Meeting duly convened, held and constituted for the purpose of passing such resolution.
 
61.
A member will be entitled to vote at the Meetings of the Company by several proxies appointed by him, provided that each proxy shall be appointed with respect to different shares held by the appointing member. Every proxy so appointed on behalf of the same member shall be entitled to vote as he sees fit.
 
62.
No person shall be entitled to vote at any General Meeting (or be counted as a part of the quorum thereof) unless all calls then payable by him in respect of his shares in the Company shall have been paid.
 
DIRECTORS
 
63.
The Board of Directors of the Company shall consist of such number of Directors as may be fixed from time to time by an Ordinary Resolution of a General Meeting, provided it shall not be less than two, including external directors, or more than eleven. As long that the Company is a public company, corporation cannot be nominated as a director in the Company.
 
 
- 10 -

 
 
64.
The Directors shall be elected at the Annual General Meeting of the Company and shall hold office until the close of the succeeding Annual General Meeting. Should no Directors be elected at the Annual General Meeting, the Directors holding office at the time such meeting was convened shall continue to hold their office. Directors whose term of office expired may be re-elected.
 
65.
[Deleted]
 
66.
Director's term will begin on the date of his appointment - as stated by the General Meeting, but the General Meeting may set a date later than the date of the General Meeting as the start date for appointment as a Director of the Company.
 
67.
Subject to the provisions of the Companies Law, the Directors in their capacity as such, shall be entitled to receive remuneration and reimbursement of expenses incurred by them in the course of carrying out their duties as Directors.
 
68.
The office of a Director shall be vacated, ipso facto, under the circumstances set forth in the Statures.
 
69.
Subject to the provisions of the Statutes, no Director shall be disqualified by virtue of his office from holding any office, or, deriving any profit from any other office in the Company or from any company in which the Company shall be a shareholder or otherwise interested, or from contracting with the Company as vendor, purchaser or otherwise, nor shall any such contract, or any contract or arrangement entered Into by or on behalf of the Company in which the Director shall in any way be interested, be avoided, nor shall any Director be liable to account to the Company for any profit arising from any such office or realized by any such contract or arrangement by reason only of such Director's holding that office or of the fiduciary relations thereby established, but the nature of his interest must be disclosed by him at the meeting of the Board of Directors at which the contract or arrangement is first considered, if his interest then exists, or, in any other case, at the first meeting of the Board of Directors after the acquisition of his Interest.
 
After such disclosure of personal interest, the Director shall not be entitled to participate and vote as a Director in the set Board of Directors meeting regarding any contract or arrangement in which he is interested as aforesaid except for contracts or arrangements according to Article 271 of the Israeli Companies Law. The Director who has a personal interest, may be present to explain the contract or arrangement, if the Chairman of the Board, determines that he is required to do so. However, if a majority of the Directors have personal interest, all the members of the Board of Directors shall be entitle to participate and vote in the aforementioned Board of Directors meeting and such transaction will have to be further subject to the approval of the shareholders of the Company. A general notice that a Director is a member of any firm or company and is to be regarded as interested in all transactions with that firm or company shall not be a sufficient disclosure under this Article and every Director shall give a special notice relating to any particular transaction with such firm or company.
 
70.
The Company may from time to time at a General Meeting, increase or decrease the number of Directors subject always to Article 63.
 
71.
In the event of one or more vacancies in the board of Directors, the continuing Directors may continue to act as long as the Board of Directors consists of at least more than three Directors. However, in the event that the remaining Directors are less than three Directors, the remaining Director or Directors may not be permitted to act only for convening a General Meeting for the purpose of the election of new Directors
 
72.
Subject to the provisions of the Statutes, the Directors may at any time and from time to time appoint any other person as a Director, whether to fill a casual vacancy or to add to their number. Any Director so appointed shall hold office until the first General Meeting convened after such appointment and may be re-elected.
 
 
- 11 -

 
 
73.
Subject to the provisions of the Statutes, the Company may at a General Meeting remove any Director from office before the expiration of his term of office and appoint another Director in his stead, provided that the removed Director shall be given a reasonable opportunity to present his case to the General Meeting. The person so appointed shall hold office only for such period as the person in whose stead he was appointed would have held office had he not been removed.
 
74.
As long that the Company is a public company according to the Israeli Companies Law, the Company shall have at least two external directors, as defined in the Israeli Companies Law, at least one of whom must be a director with accounting and financial expertise, and the rest have professional qualifications, as defined in the regulations promulgated under Section 240 of the Israeli Companies Law.

 
PRESIDENTS
 
75.
The Board of Directors may from time to time appoint one or more persons as President or Presidents of the Company whether for a fixed term or without any limitation of time and the Board of Directors may from time to time remove or discharge him or them from office (subject to the provisions of any agreement between any such person and the Company) and appoint another or others in his or their place or places.
 
76.
The Directors may from time to time appoint one or more Vice Presidents for certain functions, to carry out duties delegated to him (them) by the President.
 
77.
Subject to the provisions of the Statutes, the Directors may from time to time confer upon and delegate to a President then holding office such authorities and duties of the Board of Directors as they may deem fit, and they may delegate such authorities for such period and for such purposes and subject to such conditions and restrictions which they consider advantageous, and they may delegate such authorities with or without waiving the authorities of the Directors with respect thereto and their being in lieu of their authorities, in whole, or in part, and they may from time to time revoke, cancel and alter such authorities in whole or in part.
 
78.
Subject to the provisions of the Statutes, as may be from time to time in effect, the remuneration of a President shall be approved by the Company's compensation committee, the Directors and the shareholders meeting in a special majority, as defined and required according to the Israeli Companies law, taking into consideration any agreement between him and the Company, and it may be in whole or in part, in the form of wages or commissions or profit sharing or a combination thereof.
 
79.
[Deleted]
 
80.
Subject to the provisions of the Statutes, the Company may elect the same person as its President and its Board of Directors chairman.
 
DIRECTOR'S ACTS AND AUTHORITIES
 
81.
The powers and the duties of the Board of Directors shall be as prescribed by the Companies Law, subject to the provisions of these Articles and any regulation or resolution consistent with these Articles adopted from time to time by the Company in General Meeting, provided, however, that no such regulation or resolution shall invalidate any prior act done by or pursuant to a decision of the Board of Directors which would have been valid if such regulation or resolution had not been adopted.
 
82.
Subject to the provisions of the Statutes, the Directors may meet together for the dispatch of the business of the Company and they may postpone their meetings and otherwise regulate them as they shall deem fit. A Director may call a meeting of the Board of Directors at any time. The quorum for the dispatch of business by the Board of Directors shall be determined by the Directors and if not so determined shall be the majority of the Directors.
 
83.
A resolution in writing signed or otherwise approved by all the Directors then in office shall be as valid and as effectual as a resolution adopted by the Board of Directors at a meeting of the Board of Directors duly convened and held, provided that all the directors who are entitled to participate in such resolution and to vote on it, agreed not to convene the same matter.
 
 
- 12 -

 
 
84.
Subject to the provisions of the Statutes, every Director shall be entitled to be represented and to vote at any meeting of the Board of Directors by another Director or by another person appointed by him (not a corporation), who shall act as his alternate for one meeting or for another specified period or until notice be given of the cancellation of the appointment. In order to be nominated, the alternate Director must be eligible to be appointed as a Director according to the Israeli Companies law. Each alternate Director shall have the number of votes equivalent to the number of Directors who appointed him as alternate and if he himself is a Director he shall have such number of votes in addition to his own vote. The appointment of an alternate shall be made in writing. A Director may appoint two alternates. However, if the two alternates of the same Director shall be present at the Board of Directors' meeting, only one of them shall have the right to vote thereat. It shall be noted that the appointment of an alternate Director to the Board, does not relieve the nominating Director from his responsibility as a Director.
 
85.
A Director being at any time absent from Israel shall be entitled during such time to a seven day notice of any Meetings of the Board of Directors, provided he notified the Company of an address to which such notice should be sent. Such notice should be sent by fax, e-mail, telex, cable or telecopier.
 
86.
 
 
(a)
The Board of Directors will elect a Chairman for their meeting and fix the term of his office, and unless otherwise decided, the Chairman shall be elected annually. In the event that a Chairman was not elected and if the Chairman should fail to be present at a meeting 15 minutes after the time set for its convening, the remaining Directors shall elect one of those present to be Chairman of the meeting.
 
 
(b)
All questions that arise at meetings of the Board of Directors shall be decided by a majority of votes. In the case of an equality bf votes, the Chairman of the meeting shall have a further or casting vote.
 
87.
Any meeting of the Board of Directors, at which a quorum is present, shall have the authority to exercise all or part of the authorities, powers of attorney and discretion invested at such time in the Directors or regularly exercised by them,
 
88.
Subject to the provisions of the Statutes, the Board of Directors may delegate their authorities in whole or in part to committees as they shall deem fit and they may from time to time revoke such delegation. Any committee so created, must, in exercising the authorities granted to it, adhere to all the instructions of the Board of Directors given from time to time.
 
The meetings and proceedings of any such committee comprised of two or more members shall be governed by the provisions of these Articles regulating the meetings of the Board of Directors in so far as appropriate thereto unless the provisions of the Companies Law or the Board of Directors shall otherwise regulate the meetings of such a committee (hereinafter: "Committee of the Board of Directors").
 
89.
All acts done bona fide at any meeting of the Board of Directors, or of a Committee of the Board of Directors or by any person(s) acting as Director(s), shall, notwithstanding that it may afterwards be discovered that there was some defect in the appointment of the participants in such meeting or any of them or any person(s) acting as aforesaid, or that they or any of them or any person(s) acting as aforesaid, or that they or any of them were disqualified, be as valid as if there were no such defect or disqualification.
 
90.
The Board of Directors and each Committee of the Board of Directors shall cause proper Minutes to be kept of the following:
 
 
(a)
The names of all the Directors present at any meeting of the Board of Directors and at any meeting of a Committee of the Board of Directors;
 
 
- 13 -

 
 
 
(b)
All resolutions and proceedings of General Meetings of the Company, Board of Directors' meetings and Committee of the Board of Directors' meetings.
 
Any Minutes as aforesaid, if purporting to be signed by the Chairman of the meeting or by the Chairman of the next succeeding meeting, shall constitute prima facie evidence of the matters recorded therein. The minutes shall be kept for a period of seven (7) years from the date of the relevant meeting.
 
91.
Subject to the provisions of the Statutes, all bona fide acts carried out at any meeting of the Board of Directors held in Israel or thereafter as a result therefrom shall be valid notwithstanding the fact that a Director who was absent from Israel at the time of the meeting did not receive a notice with respect to its convening.

BRANCH REGISTERS
 
92.
Subject to and in accordance with the provisions of the Statutes and to all orders and regulations issued thereunder, the Company may cause branch registers to be kept in any place outside Israel as the Board of Directors may think fit, and, subject to all applicable legal requirements, the Board of Directors may from time to time adopt such rules and procedures as it may think fit in connection with the keeping of such branch registers.

SECRETARY
 
93.
The Board of Directors may from time to time appoint a Secretary to the Company as it deems fit and may appoint a temporary Assistant-Secretary who shall act as Secretary for the term of his appointment.

RIGHTS OF SIGNATURE - STAMP AND SEAL
 
94.
 
 
(a)
Authorization to sign on behalf of the Company and thereby bind it shall be made and granted from time to time by the Board of Directors. The Company shall have at least one rubber stamp. The Company shall be bound by the signature of the aforesaid appointees if appearing together after its stamp or imprinted name (e.g. cheques).
 
 
(b)
The Board of Directors may provide for a seal. If the Board of Directors so provide, it shall also provide for the safe custody thereof. Such seal shall not be used except by the authority of the Board of Directors and in the presence of the person(s) authorized to sign on behalf of the Company, who shall sign every instrument to which such seal is affixed.

DIVIDENDS
 
95.
Subject to the provisions of the Statutes, and subject to any preferential, deferred, qualified or other rights, privileges or conditions attached to any special class of shares, with regard to dividends, the profits of the Company available for dividend and resolved to be distributed, shall be applied in payment of dividends upon the shares of the Company in proportion to the amount paid up or credited as paid up per the nominal value thereon respectively, otherwise than in advance of calls. Unless not otherwise specified in the conditions of issuing of the shares, all dividends with respect to shares which were not fully paid up within a certain period, for which dividends were paid, shall be paid proportionally to the amounts paid or credited as paid on the nominal value of the shares during any portion of the abovementioned period (Pro-Rata Temporis).
 
96.
The Company's Board of Directors, subject to any restrictions contained in the Statutes, may declare and pay dividend, either in the form of cash or stock, to its shareholders according to their rights and interests in the profit and may fix the time for payment.
 
97.
[Deleted]
 
98.
A transfer of shares shall not pass the right to any dividend declared thereon after such transfer and before the registration of the transfer.
 
 
- 14 -

 
 
99.
Notice of the declaration of any dividend, shall be given to the holders of registered shares in manner hereinafter provided.
 
100.
Subject to the provisions of the Statutes, unless otherwise directed, any dividend may be paid by cheque or warrant, sent through the post to the registered address of the member or person entitled, or in the case of joint registered holders to that one of them first named in the register in respect of the joint holding. Every such cheque shall be made payable to the order of the person to whom it is sent. The receipt of the person whose name, at the date of the declaration of the dividend, appears on the register of members as the owner of any share, or in the case of joint holders, of any one of such joint holders, shall be a good discharge to the Company of all payments made in respect of such share. All dividends unclaimed for one year after having been declared may be invested or otherwise used by the Directors for the benefit of the Company until claimed. No unpaid dividend or interest shall bear interest as against the Company

PAYMENT IN SPECIE AND CAPITALIZATION OF PROFITS
 
101.
Subject to the provisions of the Statutes, upon declaration by the Board of Directors a dividend may be paid, wholly or partly, by the distribution of specific assets of the Company or by distribution of paid up shares, debentures, debenture stock or any other securities of the Company or of any other companies or in any one or more of such ways.
 
102.
Subject to the provisions of the Statutes, upon the recommendation of the Board of Directors, approved by Ordinary Resolution of the Company, the Company -
 
 
i.
may cause any moneys, investments, or other assets forming part of the undivided profits of the Company, standing to the credit of a reserve fund, or to the credit of a reserve fund for the redemption of capital, or in the hands of the Company and available for dividends, or representing premiums received on the issuance of shares and standing to the credit of the share premium account, to be capitalized and distributed among such of the shareholders as would be entitled to receive the same if distributed by way of dividend and in the same proportion, or to be distributed only to a certain part of the shareholders, while not distributed to other shareholders as will be decided by the General Meeting on the footing that they become entitled thereto as capital, or may cause any part of such capitalized fund to be applied on behalf of such shareholders in paying up in full, either at par or at such premium as the resolution may provide, any unissued shares or debentures or debenture stock or any other securities of the Company which shall be distributed accordingly, or in payment, in full or in part, of the uncalled liability on any issued shares or debentures or debenture stock; and –
 
 
ii.
may cause such distribution or payment to be accepted by such shareholders in full satisfaction of their interest in the said capitalized sum. When distributing shares for capitalized profits all members shall receive shares of one class - whether such class existed prior thereto or was created therefor; or, every shareholder shall receive shares of the same class which conferred upon him the right to receive shares from the capitalization of profits, or of any other class or a combination of several classes of shares - in accordance with the approval of the General Meeting.
 
103.
[Deleted]
 
104.
For the purpose of giving full effect to any resolution under Articles 100 and 101 the Board of Directors may settle any difficulty which may arise in regard to the distribution as it thinks expedient, and, in particular may fix the value for distribution to any members upon the footing of the value so fixed or determine that fractions of less nominal value than one New Israeli Shekel may be disregarded in order to adjust the rights of all parties, and may vest any such cash, shares, debentures, debenture stock or specific assets with trustees upon such trusts for the persons entitled to the dividend or capitalized fund as may seem expedient to the Board of Directors.
 
 
- 15 -

 
 
ACCOUNTS
 
105.
The Board of Directors shall cause accurate books of account to be kept in accordance with the provisions of the Statutes and of any other applicable law. Such books of account shall be, kept at the Registered Office of the Company, or at such other place or places as the Board of Directors may think fit, and they shall always be open to inspection by all Directors. Subject to the provisions of the Statutes no member, not being a Director, shall have any right to inspect any account or book or other similar document of the Company, except as conferred by law or authorised by the Board of Directors or by Ordinary Resolution of the Company.
 
106.
At least once in every fiscal year the accounts of the Company shall be audited and the correctness of the profit and loss account and balance sheet certified by one or more duly qualified auditors.
 
107.
The appointment, authorities, rights and duties of the auditor(s) of the Company, shall be regulated by the applicable law.

NOTICES
 
108.
 Subject to the provisions of the Statutes:
 
 
(a)
Any notice or other document may be served by the Company upon any member either personally or by sending it by prepaid registered mail (air mail if sent to a place outside Israel) addressed to such member at his address as described in the Register of Members or such other addresses as he may have designated in writing for the receipt of notices and other documents together with publication in two daily newspapers published in Israel. Any written notice or other document shall be deemed to have been served forty-eight (48) hours after it has been posted (seven (7) days if sent to a place, or posted at a place outside Israel), or when actually received by the addressee if sooner than forty-eight (48) hours or seven days, as the case may be, after it has been posted, or when actually tendered in person, to such member (or to the Secretary or the President), provided, however, that such notice or other document as mentioned above may be sent by cablegram or telex and confirmed by registered mail as aforesaid, and such notice shall be deemed to have been given twenty-four (24) hours after such cablegram or telex has been sent or when actually received by such member (or by the Company), whichever is earlier. If a notice is, in fact, received by the addressee, it shall be deemed to have been duly served when received, notwithstanding that it was defectively addressed or failed, in some respect, to comply with the provisions of this Article.
 
 
(b)
Unless otherwise specified in bearer share warrants, the holders of such warrants shall not be entitled to receive notice of any General Meeting of the Company, and the Company is under no obligation to give notice of General Meetings to a person entitled to a share by virtue of Its delivery to him, unless he is duly registered as a member.
 
 
(c)
All notices to be given to the members shall, with respect to any share to which persons are jointly entitled, be given to whichever of such persons is named first in the Register of Members, and any notice so given shall be sufficient notice to the holders of such share.
 
 
(d)
Any member whose address is not described in the Register of Members, and who shall not have designated in writing an address for the receipt of notices, shall not be entitled to receive any notice from the Company.
 
 
(e)
Any notice or other document served upon or sent to any member by publication in accordance with these Articles shall, notwithstanding that he be then deceased or bankrupt, and whether the Company has notice of his death or bankruptcy or not, be deemed to be duly served or sent in respect of any shares held by him (either alone or jointly with others) until some other person is registered in his stead as the holder or joint holder of such shares, and such service or sending shall be a sufficient service on or sending to his heirs, executors, administrators or assigns and all other persons (if any) interested in such share.
 
 
- 16 -

 
 
 
(f)
Where a given number of days notice or notice extending over any period is required to be given, the day of service shall be counted in such number of days or other period.
 
 
(g)
To avoid any doubts, the entitlement of a member to receive any notice relating to convening meeting of shareholders under these Articles shall be as determined in article 53(a).

RECONSTRUCTION
 
109.
Subject to the provisions of the Statutes, on any sale of the undertaking of the Company, the Directors, or the liquidators on a winding-up, may, if authorized by, accept fully paid or partly paid up shares, debentures or securities of any other company, whether Israeli or foreign, either then existing or to be formed, for the purchase in whole or in part of the property of the Company, and the Directors (if the profits of the Company permit), or the liquidators (on a winding-up), may distribute such shares, or securities, or any other property of the Company, amongst the members, without realization, or vest the same In trustees for them, and any may provide for the distribution or appropriation of the cash, shares, or other securities, benefits, or property, otherwise than in accordance with the strict legal rights of the members as contributories of the Company, and for valuation of any such securities or property at such price and in such manner as the meeting may approve, and all holders of shares shall be bound to accept and shall be bound by any valuation or distribution so authorized, and waive all rights in relation thereto, save only In the event that the Company is proposed to be or is in the course of being wound up, such statutory rights (if any) under the provisions of the Statutes as are incapable of being varied or excluded by these presents.

INDEMNITY AND INSURANCE
 
110.
 
 
(a)
Subject to the provisions of the Statutes, the Company is authorized to indemnify its Directors and other Office Holders (collectively "the Officers"), as this term is defined under section 1 of the Companies Law, to the fullest extent permitted by the Companies Law, for any liability, payment or expense as detailed below, imposed on the Officers or expended by them due to an action (or omission) performed by the Officers in their capacity as Officers of the Company.
 
 
(b)
The Company may indemnify Officers retrospectively   for debts or expenses imposed on such Officer due to an act done by virtue of his being an Officer in the Company:
 
 
(1)
A monetary liability imposed on an Officer in favor of another person by a judgment, including a compromise judgment or an arbitration decision that was approved by a court;
 
 
(2)
Reasonable legal expenses, including attorney's fees, (i) expended by the Officer as a result of an investigation or proceeding instituted against the Officer by a competent authority, provided that such investigation or proceeding concluded without the filing of an indictment against the Officer and either (A) concluded without the imposition of any monetary liability in lieu of criminal proceedings or (B) concluded with the imposition of a monetary liability in lieu of criminal proceedings but relates to a criminal offense that does not require proof of criminal intent, or (ii) expended by the Officer in respect of any monetary sanction;
 
 
(3)
A monetary obligation imposed on the Officer in favor of another person who was injured by a violation, as this term is defined in section 52(54)(a)(1)(a) of the Securities Law.
 
 
(4)
Expenses expended by the Officer, including reasonable litigation expenses, and including attorney's fees, in respect of any proceeding under chapters 8-C, 8-D or 9-A of the Securities Law or in respect to any monetary sanction.
 
 
- 17 -

 
 
 
(5)
Reasonable legal expenses, including attorneys fees, which the Officer incurred or with which he was charged by the Court, in a proceeding brought against him by the Company, in its name or by another person, or in a criminal prosecution in which he was found innocent, or in a criminal prosecution in which he was convicted of an offense that does not require proof of criminal intent;
 
 
(6)
Any other liability, payment or expense which the Company may indemnify its Officers under the Statues.
 
 The Company may undertake in advance to indemnify its Officers in any one of the following situations:
 
 
(1)
A monetary liability imposed on an Officer in favor of another person by a judgment, including a compromise judgment or an arbitration decision that was approved by a court provided that such undertaking be limited to types of events that in the opinion of the Board of Directors can be foreseen at the time of granting the undertaking to indemnify, and to a sum determined by the Board of Directors as reasonable in the circumstances of the case.
 
 
(2)
A provision permitting the company to indemnify its Officer for debts or expenses stated in articles 110(b)(2)-(6) above.
 
In any event, the total amount of indemnification that the Company will pay (in addition to amounts received from an insurance company, if any) to all officers of the Company, in aggregate, shall not exceed, in all circumstances, more than 25% the company's shareholders' equity, according to the Company's latest consolidated financial statements, prior to the date that the indemnity is paid.
 
 
(c)
Subject to the provisions of the Companies Law, the Company may enter into an agreement for the insurance of Officers responsibility for any liability that will be imposed on the officers due to an action (or omission) performed by the Officers in their capacity as Officers of the Company, in each of the following:
 
 
(1)
A breach of duty of care to the Company or to any other person;
 
 
(2)
Breach of fiduciary duty to the Company, on condition that the Officer acted in good faith and had reasonable grounds to assume that the act would not cause the Company any harm;
 
 
(3)
A monetary obligation that will be imposed on the Officer to the benefit of another person.
 
 
(4)
A monetary obligation imposed on the Officer in favor of another person who was injured by a violation, as this term is defined in section 52(54)(a)(1)(a) of the Securities Law.
 
 
(5)
Expenses expended by the Officer, including reasonable litigation expenses, and including attorney's fees, in respect of any proceeding under chapters H-3, H-4 or I-1 of the Securities Law or in respect any monetary sanction.
 
 
(d)
Subject to the provisions of the Companies Law, the Company is authorized to procure insurance for or indemnify any person whom is not an Officer, including, without limitations, any employee, agent, consultant or contractor of the Company

 
- 18 -

 
 
WINDING ־ UP
 
111.
If the Company shall be wound up, whether voluntarily or otherwise, the liquidators may with the sanction of an Extraordinary Resolution divide among the members in specie any part of the assets of the Company, and may, with like sanction, vest any part of the assets of the Company in trustees upon such trusts, for the benefit of the members, as the liquidators with like sanction shall think fit. The resolution sanctioning any such division may also sanction a division otherwise than in accordance with the legal rights of the members and may confer special rights on any class of member, but in case any resolution shall be passed sanctioning any division otherwise than in accordance with the legal rights of the members, any member who would be prejudiced thereby shall have a right to dissent, and, ancillary rights, as if such resolution were a Special Resolution passed pursuant to Section 334 of the Companies Ordinance.
 
112.
 The Company may donate reasonable sums to worthy causes, even if such donations are not within the scope of business consideration, as the Board or the President of the Company shall deem fit from time to time.
 
- 19 -