Orna Zamir, spouse of IDF chief of common employees Lieutenant Normal Eyal Zamir, is an impartial director at Tomer Meals Mixture (TASE: TOFD) at a time when the IDF is without doubt one of the firm’s largest 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 in actual fact 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 publish 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 came about 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 likely be signed in the end as deliberate.” (The settlement is up to date every so often).
Orna Zamir (57) was appointed to her publish as a director of the corporate on Might 19 this 12 months. 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 improvement 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 and 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 impartial director. All the corporate’s dealings with institutional and authorities clients are performed in accordance with the procedures and guidelines that apply to contracts of this kind, as they utilized even earlier than the appointment of Mrs. Zamir to the corporate’s board.”
The IDF Spokesperson acknowledged in response: “It is 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, so as 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 publish. She was due to take action in September, however per week after the appointment was introduced the corporate acknowledged that it might not go forward. Two days after the appointment was cancelled, Tomer Meals introduced that the rationale for the cancelation was “The accounting remedy of shares of Tomer Importing and Advertising of Meals Merchandise in earlier years.” On Sunday this week, the corporate introduced that its board of administrators had approved 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 “an instantaneous 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 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 staff, and a 30,000 square-meter logistics heart on the Bar Lev Industrial Park in northern Israel.
Based on the monetary statements now below assessment, in 2025 the corporate recorded income of NIS 244 million, 20% greater than within the earlier 12 months. It posted a web revenue of NIS 3.1 million, 42% larger than within the earlier 12 months.
As for shares, in keeping with the monetary statements they amounted to NIS 61.8 million, 8% lower than on the finish of the earlier 12 months. Kimlov’s compensation price 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 12 months, reimbursement of bills, subscriptions to a every day newspaper and to a enterprise newspaper, an organization automotive and cellular phone, and Web at his dwelling.
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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