Table 1 – EL AL Presidents and Chairmen

DateEL AL PresidentEL AL Chairman of the Board
1949Aryeh PincusAvraham Ruttenberg
1956 Nov.Efraim Ben-ArziMoshe Carmel
1966 Jan. 1Shlomo LahatEfraim Ben-Arzi
1967
Summer
Mordechai Ben-AriMoshe Carmel
1977 Nov. Mordechai ‘Motti’ HodMordechai Ben-Ari
1979 July 3Raphael ‘Rafi’ Harlev, Acting President” “
1979 Nov. 13” ” ” “Avraham ‘Bumi’ Shavit
1980 April 1Itzhak Shander, Acting President
and then President
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1981 Nov. 22Itzhak ShanderNachman Perel
1982 Dec. 5Raphael ‘Rafi’ HarlevNachman Perel (until April 1987; then
position vacant). From 5 Dec. 1982, Board
subject to Official Receiver of State of Israel
and Provisional Liquidator, Amram Blum
1994 January” “Official Receiver and Provisional Liquidator of
EL AL becomes S. Tzur
1995 Feb. 14” “Joseph Ciechanover (Chairman position reinstated).
1996 Oct. 1Joel Feldschuh (until 30 October 2000)” “
2000 Nov. 16David Hermesh” ” (until 17 February 2001)
2001 July 3” ” (until 20 February 2002)Michael Levi
2002 June 2Amos Shapira” “
2005 Jan. 6” “Israel ‘Izzy’ Borovich
2005 Mar. 10Haim Romano” “
2009 Jan. 1” “Amnon Lipkin-Shahak (interim)
2009 Feb. 21” “Amikam Cohen
2010 Jan. 1Elyezer Shkedy” “
2014 Mar. 20David Maimon” “
2017 June 1” “Eli Defes
2018 Feb. 15Gonen Usishkin” ” (until 16 August 2020)
2020 Aug. 26” “Yehuda Levy
2020 Oct. 20” ” David Brodet
2021 Jan. 22Avigal Soreq” ”
2021 June 1” “Amikam Ben Zvi
2022 May 16 Dina Ben-Tal Ganancia
(appointed 2022 April 7)
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Last updated 25 July 2022