Amit Gal

Yoav Karmi and Ariel Prestman, owners of Ha-Bayta Living, will not join the Orion board of directors following the shareholders' vote. They failed to secure the required 51% majority.

Amit Gal, head of the Capital Market Authority, has questioned the involvement of the Meitav investment house in the company Orion. This move has sparked a debate over the limits of institutional activism and the balance between protecting savers and market structure.

The Capital Markets Authority is demanding data from institutional bodies regarding their votes at public company meetings over the last 3 years. This involves hundreds of votes per body, and the institutions have turned to their voting advisory body on compensation issues to help them meet the Authority's deadline.

The Capital Market Authority is working to eliminate temporary life insurance discounts, requiring companies to maintain initial terms throughout the policy's duration. The regulator warns that customers lured by low entry prices often become trapped due to age or health issues, eventually facing premium hikes of hundreds of percent.

A draft circular published by the Capital Markets, Insurance and Savings Authority is intended to put an end to discounts of tens of percent that insurance companies grant to customers for a limited period of several years, in order to encourage enrollment. "It may influence his judgment at the time of enrollment and bias him away from making an informed decision," they write at the Authority.