Avigal Soreq, 43, has been appointed El Al CEO. Soreq, an accountant and former Israel Air Force pilot, has been working for the Delek Group since 2012 and has been SVP Delek US since 2015. He has also served on the board of directors of Alon USA, which merged with Delek US in 2017, and previously he was business development manager of Sunpower. Soreq will take up his position on Janury 1 and according to the salar.com1 website his annual remuneration in 2019 was $1.68 million. RELATED ARTICLES El Al reports $147m Q3 loss El Al to launch Tel Aviv - Dubai flights next month El Al extends workers' furlough to December 31 El Al signs cooperation MOU with Etihad Airways Soreq will replace Gonen Usishkin, who agreed with the new board of directors appointed by the new controlling shareholder Eli Rozenberg that he would step down. Soreq served as a pilot in the Israel Air Force between 1996 and 2004 and was discharged with the rank of major. Published by Globes, Israel business news - en.globes.co.il - on November 26, 2020 © Copyright of Globes Publisher Itonut (1983) Ltd. 2020
