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Notice and Proxy Statement with respect to the General Meeting describing proposals to be voted upon at the General Meeting, the procedure for voting in person or by proxy at the General Meeting and various other details related to the
General Meeting; and
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Proxy Card whereby holders of ordinary shares of the Company may vote at the General Meeting without attending in person.
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Description
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NAYAX LTD.
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By:
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/s/ Gal Omer | ||
Name: Gal Omer
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Title: Chief Legal Officer
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Approve and ratify the re-appointment of Kesselman & Kesselman, a member firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited, as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending December 31, 2024, and
until the next annual general meeting of shareholders, and to authorize the Company’s Board of Directors, following the approval of the Audit Committee, to approve and ratify the remuneration of such firm in accordance with the volume and
nature of their services.
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Elect each of the following nominees to the Board of Directors of the Company, to hold office until close of the Company’s annual general meeting to be held in 2025, and until the respective successor of each of the nominees is duly
elected and qualified:
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Mr. Yair Nechmad;
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Mr. David Ben-Avi;
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Mr. Nir Dor;
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Mr. Reuven Ben Menachem; and
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Mr. Eran Havshush.
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Elect each of the following nominees as an external director of the Company, each for a three-year term, subject to, and in accordance with, the provisions of the Israeli Companies Law, 5759-1999, or the Companies Law:
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Ms. Rina Shafir; and
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Ms. Vered Raz Avayo.
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By Order of the Board of Directors,
Yair Nechmad
Chairman of the Board of Directors
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Approve and ratify the re-appointment of Kesselman & Kesselman, a member firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited, as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending December 31, 2024, and
until the next annual general meeting of shareholders, and to authorize the Company’s Board of Directors, following the approval of the Audit Committee, to approve and ratify the remuneration of such firm in accordance with the volume and
nature of their services.
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Elect each of the following nominees to the Board of Directors of the Company, to hold office until close of the Company’s annual general meeting to be held in 2025, and until the respective successor of each of the nominees is duly
elected and qualified:
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Mr. Yair Nechmad;
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Mr. David Ben-Avi;
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Mr. Nir Dor;
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Mr. Reuven Ben Menachem; and
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Mr. Eran Havshush.
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Elect each of the following nominees as an external director of the Company, each for a three-year term, subject to, and in accordance with, the provisions of the Israeli Companies Law, 5759-1999, or the Companies Law:
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Ms. Rina Shafir; and
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Ms. Vered Raz Avayo.
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Shareholders of record on the Company's U.S. transfer agent shareholder list are requested to complete, date and sign the enclosed form of proxy and to return it no later than Wednesday, July 10, 2024, at 6:59 a.m. Israel
time (i.e., 11:59 p.m. ET on Tuesday, July 9, 2024) in the pre-addressed envelope provided. Alternatively, such shareholders may vote electronically before such time at www.proxyvote.com using the control number provided with your proxy
materials.
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If your Ordinary Shares are held through a bank, broker or other nominee, which in turn holds the shares through Cede & Co. as nominee for The Depository Trust Company, such Ordinary Shares are considered to be held in “street name”
and you are the beneficial owner with respect to such Ordinary Shares (“Beneficial Owners”). A Beneficial Owner as of the Record Date has the right to direct the bank, broker or other nominee how to
vote Ordinary Shares beneficially owned by such Beneficial Owner at the General Meeting. If your Ordinary Shares were held in “street name” as of the Record Date, these proxy materials are being forwarded to you by your bank, broker or
other nominee (who is considered, with respect to such Ordinary Shares, as the shareholder of record), together with a voting instruction card for you to use in directing the bank, broker or nominee how to vote your Ordinary Shares.
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Shareholders registered in the Company’s shareholders register in Israel (“Registered Shareholders”) and shareholders who hold Ordinary Shares through members of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (“TASE” and “TASE Member”, respectively) that are included among the Ordinary Shares registered in the Company’s shareholders register in Israel under the name of a
nominee company in Israel (“Non-registered Shareholders”) should deliver or mail (via registered mail) a completed written ballot (in the form filed by the Company via MAGNA, the online platform of
the Israel Securities Authority (“TASE Ballot”) to the Company’s offices, c/o Ms. Gal Omer, at 3 Arik Einstein Street, Building B, 1st Floor, Herzliya 4659071, Israel no later
than Wednesday, July 10, 2024, at 12:00 p.m. Israel time (i.e., at least four (4) hours before the General Meeting starts). By this time, Registered Shareholders must also provide the Company with a copy of their identity card, passport or
certificate of incorporation (“Identifying Information”). A TASE Ballot submitted by a Registered Shareholder or Non-registered Shareholder without Identifying Information attached to it will not be
valid. Non-registered Shareholders must provide the Company with an ownership certificate confirming their ownership of the Company’s Ordinary Shares on the Record Date, which certificate must be approved by a recognized financial
institution (“Ownership Certificate”), as required by the Companies Law and Israel Companies Regulations (Proof of Ownership of Shares for Voting at General Meeting), 5760-2000, as amended. A TASE
Ballot submitted by a Non-registered Shareholder without an Ownership Certificate attached to it will not be valid. A Non-registered Shareholder is entitled to receive the Ownership Certificate at the branch of the TASE Member through which
such shareholder holds his Ordinary Shares, or request from such TASE Member to deliver it by mail. Such a request shall be provided to the relevant TASE Member in advance, and with respect to a specific securities account. A Non-registered
Shareholder may direct the relevant TASE Member to deliver the Ownership Certificate to the Company through the electronic voting system of the Israel Securities Authority (the “Electronic Voting System”).
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Alternatively, Israeli Non-registered Shareholders may vote electronically via the Electronic Voting System, no later than Wednesday, July 10, 2024, at 10:00 a.m. Israel time (i.e., at least six (6) hours before the General Meeting
starts). A Non-registered Shareholder should receive instructions about electronic voting from the TASE Member through which such Non-registered Shareholder holds his Ordinary Shares.
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Shareholders of record who intend to vote their Ordinary Shares in person are requested to bring proof of identity to the General Meeting.
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Because a Beneficial Owner with shares held in “street name” is not a shareholder of record, such shareholders may not vote those Ordinary Shares directly at the General Meeting unless they obtain a “legal proxy” from the bank, broker or
other nominee that holds the Ordinary Shares directly, giving them the right to vote the Ordinary Shares at the General Meeting. Brokers that hold ordinary shares in “street name” for clients typically have authority to vote on “routine”
proposals even when they have not received instructions from beneficial owners. None of the items on the General Meeting agenda may be considered routine. Therefore, it is important for a shareholder that holds Ordinary Shares through a
bank, broker or other nominee to instruct its bank, broker or other nominee how to vote its Ordinary Shares, if the shareholder wants its Ordinary Shares to count for all proposals.
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Both Registered Shareholders and Non-registered Shareholders who intend to vote their Ordinary Shares in person must provide the Company with Identifying Information prior to meeting and Non-registered Shareholders must also provide an
Ownership Certificate, no later than Sunday, July 7, 2024, at 4:00 p.m. Israel time (i.e., at least seventy-two (72) hours before the General Meeting starts). Both Registered Shareholders and Non-registered Shareholders may revoke their
proxies or TASE Ballot (as applicable) in accordance with Section 9 of the Companies Law Regulations (Proxy Voting).
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Base a portion of the compensation opportunity of our executive officers on our and their respective performance.
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Annual bonuses are subject to the attainment of pre-set periodic objectives, individual and Company targets determined annually, and to discretionary evaluations.
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Set annual performance targets to our chief executive officer based on measurable objectives.
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Offer equity and cash compensation which we believe enhances alignment between executive officers’ interests with the Company’s and shareholders’ long-term interests, as well as strengthens
retention and motivation of executive officers in the long-term.
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Adopted a ‘clawback policy’ and include in our Compensation Policy ‘clawback’ provisions which allow us under certain circumstances to recoup excess incentive compensation to executive
officers where the company is required to prepare a financial restatement to correct a material error.
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Taylor executive officers’ compensation to target our short and long-term goals, as well as each officer’s individual performance.
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Maintain a majority independent Board of Directors, including two external directors under the Companies Law.
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Include in our compensation policy measures designed to reduce executive officers’ incentives to take excessive risks that may harm us in the long-term, such as limit cash bonuses and
equity-based compensation, as well as the ratio between the variable and the total compensation of an executive officer and set minimum vesting periods for equity-based compensation.
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Maintain entirely independent audit and remuneration committees.
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Board Diversity Matrix
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Country of Principal Executive Offices:
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Israel
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Foreign Private Issuer
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Yes
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Disclosure Prohibited Under Home Country Law
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No
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Total Number of Directors
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7
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Female
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Male
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Non-binary
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Did Not
Disclose
Gender
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Part I: Gender Identity
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Directors
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2
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5
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Part II: Demographic Background
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Underrepresented Individual in Home Country Jurisdiction
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LGBTQ+
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Did Not Disclose Demographic Background
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Name of Beneficial Owner
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Number of
Ordinary Shares Beneficially Owned |
Percentage of
Ordinary Shares Beneficially Owned |
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5% or Greater Shareholders
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Amir Nechmad
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7,885,348
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20.22
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%
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Yair Nechmad
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8,915,188
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22.86
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%
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David Ben-Avi
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7,530,165
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19.31
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%
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Other Executive Officers and Board Members
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Rina Shafir
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Vered Raz Avayo
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Nir Dor
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Reuven Ben Menachem
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*
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*
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Sagit Manor
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*
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*
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Oren Tepper
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*
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Keren Sharir
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Tami Erel
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*
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*
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Gal Omer
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Moshe Orenstein
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*
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*
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Oded Frenkel
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*
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*
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Ella Shechtman
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*
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*
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Moshe Shmaryahu
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*
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Yaron Aharon
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Aaron Greenberg
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All executive officers and Board members as a group (18 individuals)
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24,330,701
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63.88
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%
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Represents beneficial ownership of less than 1% of our total outstanding ordinary shares.
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Name
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Age
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Position
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Yair Nechmad
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61
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Co-Founder, Chairman of the Board and CEO
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David Ben-Avi
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50
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Co-Founder, Director and Chief Technology Officer
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Nir Dor
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60
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Director
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Reuven Ben Menachem
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63
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Director
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Eran Havshush
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48
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Director
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Mr. Yair Nechmad;
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Mr. David Ben-Avi;
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Mr. Nir Dor;
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Mr. Reuven Ben Menachem; and
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Mr. Eran Havshush.”
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such majority includes at least a majority of the votes cast at the General Meeting who are not controlling shareholders and do not have a personal interest in the election of the external director (other than a personal interest not
deriving from a relationship with a controlling shareholder), excluding abstentions, to which we refer as a disinterested majority; or
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the total votes cast at the General Meeting by non-controlling shareholders and by shareholders who do not have a personal interest in the election of the external director (other than a personal interest not deriving from a relationship
with a controlling shareholder) against the election of the external director does not exceed 2% of the aggregate voting power in the company.
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Ms. Rina Shafir; and
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Ms. Vered Raz Avayo."
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NAYAX LTD.
C/O PROXY SERVICES
P.O. BOX 9142
FARMINGDALE, NY 11735
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VOTE BY INTERNET - www.proxyvote.com or scan the QR Barcode above
Use the Internet to transmit your voting instructions and for electronic delivery of information up until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time the day
before the cut-off date or meeting date. Have your proxy card in hand when you access the web site and follow the instructions to obtain your records and to create an electronic voting instruction form.
ELECTRONIC DELIVERY OF FUTURE PROXY MATERIALS
If you would like to reduce the costs incurred by our company in mailing proxy materials, you can consent to receiving all future proxy
statements, proxy cards and annual reports electronically via e-mail or the Internet. To sign up for electronic delivery, please follow the instructions above to vote using the Internet and, when prompted, indicate that you agree to
receive or access proxy materials electronically in future years.
VOTE BY PHONE - 1-800-690-6903
Use any touch-tone telephone to transmit your voting instructions up until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time the day before the cut-off date or meeting
date. Have your proxy card in hand when you call and then follow the instructions.
VOTE BY MAIL
Mark, sign and date your proxy card and return it in the postage-paid envelope we have provided or return it to Vote Processing, c/o
Broadridge, 51 Mercedes Way, Edgewood, NY 11717.
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V52182-P13082 KEEP THIS PORTION FOR YOUR RECORDS
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DETACH AND RETURN THIS PORTION ONLY
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The Board of Directors recommends you vote FOR the following proposals:
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Approve and ratify the re-appointment of Kesselman & Kesselman, a member firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited, as the Company’s
independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending December 31, 2024 and until the next annual general meeting of shareholders, and to authorize the Company's Board of Directors, following the approval of
the Audit Committee, to approve and ratify the remuneration of such firm in accordance with the volume and nature of their services.
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Elect each of the following nominees as an external director of the Company, each for a three-year term, subject to, and in
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Elect each of the following nominees to the Board of Directors of the Company, to hold office until close of the Company’s annual general meeting to be held in 2025, and until the respective
successor of each of the nominees is duly elected and qualified:
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Ms. Rina Shafir
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Ms. Vered Raz Avayo
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Mr. Yair Nechmad
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Mr. David Ben-Avi
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PLEASE NOTE that by signing and submitting this proxy card, you declare that you have no “personal interest” in any of the items that are proposed for approval
at the Annual General Meeting of shareholders, except for a “personal interest” of which you have notified the Company about in writing, as required under the Israeli Companies Law 5759-1999. For further information,
please see the proxy statement.
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Mr. Nir Dor
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Mr. Reuven Ben Menachem
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Mr. Eran Havshush
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Please sign exactly as your name(s) appear(s) hereon. When signing as attorney, executor, administrator, or other fiduciary, please give full title as such. Joint owners
should each sign personally. All holders must sign. If a corporation or partnership, please sign in full corporate or partnership name by authorized officer.
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Signature [PLEASE SIGN WITHIN BOX]
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