Israel
By Hamodia Staff
YERUSHALAYIM -
Parked El AL airplanes at the ben Gurion International Airport. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
There was good news from El Al Airlines on Wednesday, as the company succeeded in raising the $75 million required to secure $300 million in state-guaranteed loans crucial to its survival, Globes reported on Wednesday.
El Al chairman David Brodet said, “We were pleasantly surprised and fully achieved our target.”
The target was to raise $75 million. In the event, it raised $77 million by issuing 1.25 billion options to the public on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE). The options given can be exercised at a price of NIS 0.30 per share, so that full exercise of the options would increase the capital raised by an additional amount of NIS 375 million ($116 million).