Of the three businesspeople bidding for El Al Israel Airlines Ltd. (TASE: ELAL) only Eli Rozenberg submitted a bid for the financially troubled company - the person that El Al's parent company Knafaim least wanted to see take control of the company. Meir Gurvitz announced earlier this week that he was dropping out of the race and David Sapir who expressed determination yesterday to buy shares at higher than the minimum price did not in the end bid at all. RELATED ARTICLES El Al TASE $150m offering to go ahead Wednesday Meir Gurvitz quits El Al race Treasury nixes private placement for El Al Rozenberg sets up company to buy El Al in public offering Sapir to Treasury: El Al board chose my bid El Al's share price stood at NIS 0.77.4 at the close of trading, 5.59% above the minimum price for the offering. Rozenberg said prior to the offering that he would buy $101 million out of the $150 million in shares on offer, which would give him a controlling 44.9% stake in the airline. The government is committed to buying any shares not purchased and then put up 75% guarantees for bank loans of up to $250 million. en.globes.co.il - on September 16, 2020 © Copyright of Globes Publisher Itonut (1983) Ltd. 2020
