Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> May 3, 1999

Yehuda Harats – Electric Fuel Corporation (efcx)

YEHUDA HARATS has been President, Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Electric Fuel Corp. since May 1991. Previously, from 1980 to May 1991, he was the Executive Vice President, Director of the Process Division and head of the Heat Collection Element Division at Luz Industries Israel Limited (LII). In 1989, he was part of the team awarded the Rothschild Award for Industry, granted by the President of the State of Israel, for his work at LII. Before joining LII in 1980, Mr. Harats was Manager of the Maintenance Planning Unit of the Israel Air Force. Mr. Harats received a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion) in Haifa, Israel. Profile
TWST: Give us a background historical sketch on Electric Fuel Corp. Put

us into context for what you see as your business and what you see as

your company today?

Mr. Harats: The company was