Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> May 3, 1999
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. Putus into context for what you see as your business and what you see as
your company today?
Mr. Harats: The company was