Shlomo Isaac won by a very large margin (79.4%) in the presidential election of the Chamber of Insurance Agents. He is known as the owner of Hapoel Holon in basketball and the owner of United Credit , Which recently made headlines mainly thanks to Moshe Kahlon’s salary package.
In March, former bureau president Lior Rosenfeld announced his resignation About eight months before the end of the term, and since then the Bureau of Insurance Agents has been headed by a temporary president – Yossi Engelman. Therefore, many of the insurance agents and members of the bureau were expecting an election in order for a permanent president to be appointed to the bureau at the end.
The number of eligible voters was 4,451 agents, but only 39% voted (about 1,700 agents). Udi Hod faced off against Isaac, who won 19.6% of the vote.
Last November, the National Court of the Bureau of Insurance Agents announced that it was disqualifying the Central Election Commission and therefore the election would be postponed for six months. This, on the grounds that irregularities were discovered in the conduct of the Election Committee, headed by an outside party – Adv. Haim Kenneth, and that it acted in violation of the regulations of the Bureau of Insurance Agents. “As far as I demand, I will petition the court in order to maintain the proper procedure in the election for the Chamber of Insurance Agents,” Isaac said at the time.