IDF chief’s spouse a director of co concerned in irregularities

Orna Zamir, spouse of IDF chief of common employees Lieutenant Common Eyal Zamir, is an unbiased director at Tomer Meals Mixture (TASE: TOFD) at a time when the IDF is likely one of the firm’s greatest clients. Earlier this month, Tomer Meals Mixture reported obvious issues within the accounting remedy of its shares, and buying and selling in its share was subsequently halted. The IDF says that the report quantities to manipulation, and that the chief of employees has by no means had something to do with any side of Tomer Meals.

Protection institution sources say that the truth is there are not any non-public contracts between Tomer Meals and the IDF or the Ministry of Protection, from Eyal Zamir’s interval as chief of employees or throughout his earlier submit as director common of the Ministry of Protection. “All of the contracts throughout his time in these posts adopted from a lawful win in a young. All these tenders are fairly easy, in that the bottom bid wins. The appointment of Orna Zamir happened three months in the past,” the sources defined. “The appointment of the spouse of the chief of employees on the firm has already been recorded within the up to date battle of pursuits settlement which will probably be signed in the end as deliberate.” (The settlement is up to date every now and then).

Orna Zamir (57) was appointed to her submit as a director of the corporate on Might 19 this yr. She holds a primary diploma in political science from Tel Aviv College and an MBA from Université Paris Cité. For the previous three years she has been a enterprise and technique developer at OZ Consulting. She has additionally served as enterprise growth supervisor at Alin Beit Noam, an NGO for individuals with disabilities, and was deputy director common of Hod Hasharon Municipality for 5 years and a director of Maya, the water company of Hod Hasharon, for 4 years.

Earlier than buying and selling was halted within the firm’s shares, Tomer Meals had a market cap of NIS 138 million. The corporate’s chairperson and CEO is David Kimlov, who holds 61% of the corporate. The corporate acknowledged in response to the report: “Tomer Meals rejects any try to create a connection between the appointment of Orna Zamir to its board of administrators and the corporate’s enterprise exercise with third events, together with the Ministry of Protection, which started lengthy earlier than Mrs. Zamir was appointed to the board as an unbiased director. All the corporate’s dealings with institutional and authorities clients are carried out in accordance with the procedures and guidelines that apply to contracts of this sort, as they utilized even earlier than the appointment of Mrs. Zamir to the corporate’s board.”

The IDF Spokesperson acknowledged in response: “This can be a case of unacceptable and groundless manipulation. The chief of employees doesn’t deal and has not handled any side of the corporate talked about, and has by no means made any determination regarding it, not throughout his interval as chief of employees and never when he was director common of the Ministry of Protection. The appointment of the spouse of the chief of employees to the place on the firm was declared in accordance with process, with a purpose to keep away from any impediment, even when solely as a matter of appearances, of a battle of pursuits. Any declare on the contrary belies the truth.”

Buying and selling within the share halted

That is the second affair to concern Tomer Meals not too long ago. The earlier episode, after which buying and selling within the firm’s share was halted from August 24, started after the corporate’s new CFO Avital Perelstein-Cherny resigned even earlier than she took up the submit. She was due to take action in September, however per week after the appointment was introduced the corporate acknowledged that it will not go forward. Two days after the appointment was cancelled, Tomer Meals introduced that the explanation for the cancelation was “The accounting remedy of shares of Tomer Importing and Advertising and marketing of Meals Merchandise in earlier years.” On Sunday this week, the corporate introduced that its board of administrators had licensed a committee to look at the difficulty of the remedy of shares with the corporate’s skilled advisers.

Following the shock announcement by the CFO designate, Tomer Meals Mixture started “a direct examination of the remedy of shares”, and whether or not and by how a lot it had impacted its monetary statements for 2025 launched in April, within the framework of approval of the merger whereby it turned a listed firm on the Tel Aviv Inventory change. Tomer Importing and Advertising and marketing of Meals Merchandise joined the inventory change three months in the past as Tomer Meals Mixture when it accomplished a merger with inventory market shell firm Cipia Imaginative and prescient, a transfer led by funding banking agency Mor Langerman.

Tomer Meals Mixture has a market cap of NIS 138 million and is managed by David Kimlov. Since 1979, it has imported and marketed meals merchandise, with a line of greater than 1,600 merchandise. The corporate has 73 workers, and a 30,000 square-meter logistics middle on the Bar Lev Industrial Park in northern Israel.

In keeping with the monetary statements now underneath assessment, in 2025 the corporate recorded income of NIS 244 million, 20% greater than within the earlier yr. It posted a internet revenue of NIS 3.1 million, 42% larger than within the earlier yr.

As for shares, based on the monetary statements they amounted to NIS 61.8 million, 8% lower than on the finish of the earlier yr. Kimlov’s compensation value is acknowledged at NIS 2.8 million, which features a bonus of NIS 1 million for assembly revenue targets. His month-to-month wage is NIS 118,000, and he’s entitled to a bonus of 5% of the corporate’s annual working revenue. He’s additionally entitled to 30 days trip a yr, reimbursement of bills, subscriptions to a day by day newspaper and to a enterprise newspaper, an organization automobile and cell phone, and Web at his house.

Kimlov’s son Tomer is employed on the firm as VP for regulation and imports, and his spouse Ella is the corporate’s promoting and media supervisor.

Revealed by Globes, Israel enterprise information – en.globes.co.il – on August 31, 2026.

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