An attempt by the new owners of a controlling stake in the Shufersal retail chain, brothers Shlomo and Yossi Amirov, to appoint the deputy general director of the Ichilov hospital, Professor Yitzhak Shapira, to the position of chairman of the board of directors with a salary of 4 hours a week caused a negative reaction in economic circles.
However, even before the official regulator, the Securities Market Supervision Authority, voiced its opinion on this matter, the appointment was blocked by the Ministry of Health.
The Ministry of Health prohibited Professor Shapira from combining positions, although they left open the possibility for him to take an ordinary place on the board of directors of Shufersal if he draws up the appropriate document on preventing conflicts of interest, The Marker reports.
Let us recall that initially the Amir brothers wanted to keep the positions of general director and chairman of the board of directors of the network for themselves, but this step was blocked by the securities market management. As a result, they appointed themselves as general directors, and Shapira was supposed to be the “wedding general”, occupying the position of chairman of the board of directors for pro forma purposes.