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Yehiel Borochoff
(born April 17, 1945) is a CPA. For 25 years, he served as an external accountant and financial consultant for Ofer Brothers Group. He was appointed as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Tefahot Bank. He currently serves as academic director and senior lecturer for training directors in the external studies program at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa and as an expert on corporate law, corporate governance, class action suits, and other subjects at the Haifa District Court.

Biography
Mr. Borochoff was born in Jerusalem in April 1945. He studied at the Hebrew Reali High School in Haifa, has a B.A. from the Faculty of Accounting at the University of Haifa, and studied property assessment at the External Studies Program at the Technion, and contract law, corporate law, and property law at Tel Aviv University.

Mr. Borochoff began his career as an employee in the accounting department at Paz Oil Company, and later as a CPA at Hattis Greenbaum & Co. CPA. In 1974, he opened his own CPA firm, which merged with Shlomo Ziv & Co. in 1992 and went on to become BDO Ziv Haft (one of Israel's big five CPA firms). From the merger until 1995, Borochoff was a senior partner in Shlomo Ziv & Co., managing the firm's northern desk. For 25 years (1974-2001 ), Mr. Borochoff served as an economics and financial consultant to Ofer Brothers Group, and as the CPA for the Group (which numbers about 40 companies). He advised on the financial conduct of all the Group's companies, including on the acquisition and sale of companies, and IPOs on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. Among other things, he served as a Group representative for the acquisition of United Mizrahi Bank, the fuel company Sonol Ltd., Cable and Electrical Wire Manufacturer Ltd., malls and shopping centers, as well as for the construction of the Herzliya Marina and the sale of numerous companies and public offerings to raise capital. Mr. Borochoff served as a director at United Mizrahi Bank, Mizrahi Investment Company Ltd., Tefahot Bank, Sonol Ltd., Supergas Ltd., Granite Hacarmel Ltd., and other companies. When Mr. Borochoff resigned as a partner from BDO Ziv Haft, he was appointed as a director at United Mizrahi Bank, where he served as a representative of the controlling core and was a member of credit, administration, and investment subcommittees and chairman of the balance sheet committee. He also served as a director at Mizrahi Investment Company Ltd. and Tefahot Bank, and served as executive chairman of Tefahot Bank in 1998-2001. In his capacity as executive chairman of the board of directors at Tefahot Bank and chairman of the bank's credit subcommittee, he and the CEO shaped special annual work plans, oversaw internal audits, and negotiated with the Histadrut Federation of Israeli Labor on a voluntary retirement plan and special three-year labor agreement for bank employees. In 2003-2008, the Haifa District Court appointed Mr. Borochoff as one of the receivers for Co-op North and Co-Op Zvulun. In this capacity, he was responsible for the realization of around NIS 200 million in assets and the distribution of a dividend to 28,000 shareholders. In 2005-2008, Mr. Borochoff served as the CEO of "Master CEO" of Zeevi Group, and as a financial consultant to management. In this capacity, he handled the IPO of Subaru importer Japanauto Ltd., restructured the Group's liabilities, reached financing settlements with the banks and credit companies, enabling the Group to recover from its financial difficulties. In recent years, Mr. Borochoff has worked as a corporate consultant on financing, investments, internal audits, valuations, and due diligence. He has served for five years as head of the financing program and CEO and directors training at the Continuing Education Program at the University of Haifa. He currently serves as an academic consultant and senior lecturer in the External Studies for CEO and directors training program at the Division of Continuing Education at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa. He lectures on corporate law, the capital market, the Israeli economy, regulation, and analysis of financial reports, and serves as an expert on corporate law and valuations. He is a court-appointed expert to offer his expertise on issuing opinions on commercial and corporate matters. Today, Borochoff is a mediator and arbitrator of dispute over economic and financial matters. Mr. Borochoff is the author of the proffessional book "The Director and CEO in Corporate Governance" (in Hebrew), which is distributed in law court libraries nationwide, of the novel "The Angel's Revenge", the plays "The Will", and "The Bruno Family" (all in Hebrew). He has also written poetry, some which were published in the book "Poems Written Together" (in Hebrew).