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Shlomo Yanai became President and Chief Executive Officer on March 1 2007. Prior to joining Teva Mr. Yanai served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Makhteshim-Agan Industries Ltd. since May 2003. Before joining Makhteshim-Agan Mr. Yanai served for 32 years with the Israel Defense Forces (the IDF) where he achieved the rank of Major General the highest rank below Chief of Staff and successively held two of the most senior positions within the IDF: Commanding Officer of the Southern Command and then Head of the Division of Strategic Planning of the IDF. Mr. Yanai was the head of the Israeli security delegation to the peace talks at Camp David Shepherdstown and Wye River. Mr. Yanai is a board member of Bank Leumi Le-Israel Ltd. and Lycord Natural Products Industries (a wholly owned subsidiary of Makhteshim-Agan). He is a member of the International Advisory Board of the M.B.A. program of Ben-Gurion University and an honorary member of the board of the University's Institute for Policy and Strategy of the Interdisciplinary Center. Mr. Yanai has received numerous awards among them the Israel Defense Forces Distinguished Service Medal in 1973 the Max Perlman Award for Excellence in Global Business Management in 2005 and the Dun & Bradstreet Leadership Excellence Award in 2006. Mr. Yanai received a B.A. in political science and economics from Tel Aviv University an M.P.A. in national resources management from George Washington University and is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program of the Harvard Business School. | 