WASHINGTON (AP) — After several weeks working mostly behind closed doors, Vice President-elect JD Vance returned to Capitol Hill this week in a new, more visible role: Helping Donald Trump try to get his most contentious Cabinet picks to confirmation in the Senate, where Vance has served for the last two years. Vance arrived at the Capitol on Wednesday with former Rep. Matt Gaetz and spent the morning sitting in on meetings between Trump’s choice for attorney general and key Republicans, including members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. The effort was for naught: Gaetz announced a day later that he was withdrawing his name amid scrutiny over sex trafficking allegations and the reality that he was unlikely to be confirmed. Thursday morning Vance was back, this time accompanying Pete Hegseth, the “Fox & Friends Weekend” host whom Trump has tapped to be the next secretary of defense. Hegseth also has faced allegations of sexual assault that he denies. Vance is expected to accompany other nominees for meetings in coming weeks as he tries to leverage the two years he has spent in the Senate to help push through Trump's picks. The role of introducing nominees around Capitol Hill is an unusual one for a vice president-elect. Usually the job goes to a former senator who has close relationships on the Hill, or a more junior aide. But this time the role fits Vance, said Marc Short, who served as Trump’s first director of legislative affairs as well as chief of staff to Trump’s first vice president, Mike Pence, who spent more than a decade in Congress and led the former president’s transition ahead of his first term. ”JD probably has a lot of current allies in the Senate and so it makes sense to have him utilized in that capacity,” Short said. Unlike the first Trump transition, which played out before cameras at Trump Tower in New York and at the president-elect's golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, this one has largely happened behind closed doors in Palm Beach, Florida. There, a small group of officials and aides meet daily at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort to run through possible contenders and interview job candidates. The group includes Elon Musk, the billionaire who has spent so much time at the club that Trump has joked he can’t get rid of him. Vance has been a constant presence, even as he’s kept a lower profile. The Ohio senator has spent much of the last two weeks in Palm Beach, according to people familiar with his plans, playing an active role in the transition, on which he serves as honorary chair. Vance has been staying at a cottage on the property of the gilded club, where rooms are adorned with cherubs, oriental rugs and intricate golden inlays. It's a world away from the famously hardscrabble upbringing that Vance documented in the memoir that made him famous, “Hillbilly Elegy.” His young children have also joined him at Mar-a-Lago, at times. Vance was photographed in shorts and a polo shirt playing with his kids on the seawall of the property with a large palm frond, a U.S. Secret Service robotic security dog in the distance. On the rare days when he is not in Palm Beach, Vance has been joining the sessions remotely via Zoom. Though he has taken a break from TV interviews after months of constant appearances, Vance has been active in the meetings, which began immediately after the election and include interviews and as well as presentations on candidates’ pluses and minuses. Among those interviewed: Contenders to replace FBI Director Christopher Wray , as Vance wrote in a since-deleted social media post. Defending himself from criticism that he’d missed a Senate vote in which one of President Joe Biden’s judicial nominees was confirmed, Vance wrote that he was meeting at the time "with President Trump to interview multiple positions for our government, including for FBI Director.” “I tend to think it’s more important to get an FBI director who will dismantle the deep state than it is for Republicans to lose a vote 49-46 rather than 49-45,” Vance added on X. “But that’s just me.” While Vance did not come in to the transition with a list of people he wanted to see in specific roles, he and his friend, Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., who is also a member of the transition team, were eager to see former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. find roles in the administration. Trump ended up selecting Gabbard as the next director of national intelligence , a powerful position that sits atop the nation’s spy agencies and acts as the president’s top intelligence adviser. And he chose Kennedy to lead the Department of Health and Human Services , a massive agency that oversees everything from drug and food safety to Medicare and Medicaid. Vance was also a big booster of Tom Homan, the former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, who will serve as Trump's “border czar.” In another sign of Vance's influence, James Braid, a top aide to the senator, is expected to serve as Trump’s legislative affairs director. Allies say it’s too early to discuss what portfolio Vance might take on in the White House. While he gravitates to issues like trade, immigration and tech policy, Vance sees his role as doing whatever Trump needs. Vance was spotted days after the election giving his son’s Boy Scout troop a tour of the Capitol and was there the day of leadership elections. He returned in earnest this week, first with Gaetz — arguably Trump’s most divisive pick — and then Hegseth, who has was been accused of sexually assaulting a woman in 2017, according to an investigative report made public this week. Hegseth told police at the time that the encounter had been consensual and denied any wrongdoing. Vance hosted Hegseth in his Senate office as GOP senators, including those who sit on the Senate Armed Services Committee, filtered in to meet with the nominee for defense secretary. While a president’s nominees usually visit individual senators’ offices, meeting them on their own turf, the freshman senator — who is accompanied everywhere by a large Secret Service detail that makes moving around more unwieldy — instead brought Gaetz to a room in the Capitol on Wednesday and Hegseth to his office on Thursday. Senators came to them. Vance made it to votes Wednesday and Thursday, but missed others on Thursday afternoon. Vance is expected to continue to leverage his relationships in the Senate after Trump takes office. But many Republicans there have longer relationships with Trump himself. Sen. Kevin Cramer, a North Dakota Republican, said that Trump was often the first person to call him back when he was trying to reach high-level White House officials during Trump's first term. “He has the most active Rolodex of just about anybody I’ve ever known,” Cramer said, adding that Vance would make a good addition. “They’ll divide names up by who has the most persuasion here,” Cramer said, but added, “Whoever his liaison is will not work as hard at it as he will.” Cramer was complimentary of the Ohio senator, saying he was “pleasant” and ” interesting” to be around. ′′He doesn’t have the long relationships," he said. "But we all like people that have done what we’ve done. I mean, that’s sort of a natural kinship, just probably not as personally tied.” Under the Constitution, Vance will also have a role presiding over the Senate and breaking tie votes. But he's not likely to be needed for that as often as was Kamala Harris, who broke a record number of ties for Democrats as vice president, since Republicans will have a bigger cushion in the chamber next year. Colvin reported from New York. Associated Press writer Mary Clare Jalonick contributed to this report.
Key Takeaways When Dave Portnoy, founder and president of media company Barstool Sports, stepped into Baltimore-based pizza shop TinyBrickOven, he didn't know the store was in its final days — or that he would play a crucial part in saving it. In a video posted on YouTube and social media on Monday, Portnoy ordered a pizza from TinyBrickOven for his One Bite Pizza Reviews channel, which has over 1.3 million subscribers on YouTube (and everybody knows the rules). While waiting for his food, Portnoy chatted with the store's owner, Will Fagg, who revealed that TinyBrickOven was closing forever in a few days, on Christmas. "We're just not making any money man, it's been crazy," Fagg said, adding that TinyBrickOven had been unable to get its liquor license, but a place nearby had, which put his restaurant at a disadvantage. Related: Pizza Shop Owner Goes Viral After Bad Barstool Review, Says Business Is Booming Portnoy paid for the pizza and took his bite outside. His first impression of the slice was that it was a "very good" New York-style pizza and that he "really liked it." "There's no way this place should be going out of business, none," Portnoy said. He walked back to the store and asked Fagg, "How much money do you need to stay open for a year?" Fagg said $60,000 — and Portnoy said, "Done." Portnoy rated the slice a 7.9 out of 10. The free publicity that came next, reaching millions of people, would be priceless. Since it was posted earlier this week, Portnoy's video with TinyBrickOven has been viewed 14.5 million times on X and 300,000 times on YouTube . The post has almost 70,000 likes on Instagram as of press time. Fagg told CBS News that on Christmas Eve, TinyBrickOven had a line out the door and the phone was constantly ringing. Related: This Pizza Pioneer Says He Approaches Pies Like an Athlete "It kind of feels like a Christmas miracle," Fagg told the outlet. "We've never had a crowd like this." After Portnoy's video took off, other donations came pouring in. TinyBrickOven's page on GoFundMe exceeded $120,000 in donations at the time of writing. Portnoy told CBS that Fagg received his separate $60,000 donation by Wednesday. Portnoy began filming pizza reviews in 2013 and now has a review website called One Bite . Related: He Opened a Pizza Restaurant to Serve the Native American Community. It Was So Successful He's Opening 20 More.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza City (AP) — For Gaza’s women, the hardships of life in the territory’s sprawling tent camps are compounded by the daily humiliation of never having privacy. Women struggle to dress modestly while crowded into tents with extended family members, including men, and with strangers only steps away in neighboring tents. Access to menstrual products is limited, so they cut up sheets or old clothes to use as pads. Makeshift toilets usually consist of only a hole in the sand surrounded by sheets dangling from a line, and these must be shared with dozens of other people. Alaa Hamami has dealt with the modesty issue by constantly wearing her prayer shawl, a black cloth that covers her head and upper body. “Our whole lives have become prayer clothes, even to the market we wear it,” said the young mother of three. “Dignity is gone.” Normally, she would wear the shawl only when performing her daily Muslim prayers. But with so many men around, she keeps it on all the time, even when sleeping — just in case an Israeli strike hits nearby in the night and she has to flee quickly, she said. Israel’s 14-month-old campaign in Gaza has driven more than 90% of its 2.3 million Palestinians from their homes. Hundreds of thousands of them are now living in squalid camps of tents packed close together over large areas. Sewage runs into the streets , and food and water are hard to obtain. Winter is setting in. Families often wear the same clothes for weeks because they left clothing and many other belongings behind as they fled. Everyone in the camps searches daily for food, clean water and firewood. Women feel constantly exposed. Gaza has always been a conservative society. Most women wear the hijab, or head scarf, in the presence of men who are not immediate family. Matters of women’s health — pregnancy, menstruation and contraception — tend not to be discussed publicly. “Before we had a roof. Here it does not exist,” said Hamami, whose prayer shawl is torn and smudged with ash from cooking fires. “Here our entire lives have become exposed to the public. There is no privacy for women.” Wafaa Nasrallah, a displaced mother of two, says life in the camps makes even the simplest needs difficult, like getting period pads, which she cannot afford. She tried using pieces of cloth and even diapers, which have also increased in price. For a bathroom, she has a hole in the ground, surrounded by blankets propped up by sticks. The U.N. says more than 690,000 women and girls in Gaza require menstrual hygiene products, as well as clean water and toilets. Aid workers have been unable to meet demand, with supplies piling up at crossings from Israel. Stocks of hygiene kits have run out, and prices are exorbitant. Many women have to choose between buying pads and buying food and water. Doaa Hellis, a mother of three living in a camp, said she has torn up her old clothes to use for menstrual pads. “Wherever we find fabric, we tear it up and use it.” A packet of pads costs 45 shekels ($12), “and there is not even five shekels in the whole tent,” she said. Anera, a rights group active in Gaza, says some women use birth control pills to halt their periods. Others have experienced disruptions in their cycles because of the stress and trauma of repeated displacement. The terrible conditions pose real risks to women’s health, said Amal Seyam, the director of the Women’s Affairs Center in Gaza, which provides supplies for women and surveys them about their experiences. She said some women have not changed clothes for 40 days. That and improvised cloth pads “will certainly create” skin diseases, diseases related to reproductive health and psychological conditions, she said. “Imagine what a woman in Gaza feels like, if she’s unable to control conditions related to hygiene and menstrual cycles,” Seyam said. Hellis remembered a time not so long ago, when being a woman felt more like a joy and less like a burden. “Women are now deprived of everything, no clothes, no bathroom. Their psychology is completely destroyed,” she said. Seyam said the center has tracked cases where girls have been married younger, before the age of 18, to escape the suffocating environment of their family’s tents. The war will “continue to cause a humanitarian disaster in every sense of the word. And women always pay the biggest price,” she said. Israel’s campaign in Gaza has killed more than 45,000 Palestinians, over half of them women and children, according to the territory’s Health Ministry. Its count does not differentiate between combatants and civilians. Israel launched its assault in retaliation for the Oct. 7, 2023, attack by Hamas on southern Israel, in which militants killed some 1,200 people and abducted around 250 others. With large swaths of Gaza’s cities and towns leveled, women wrestle with reduced lives in their tents. Hamami can walk the length of her small tent in a few strides. She shares it with 13 other people from her extended family. During the war, she gave birth to a son, Ahmed, who is now 8 months old. Between caring for him and her two other children, washing her family’s laundry, cooking and waiting in line for water, she says there’s no time to care for herself. She has a few objects that remind her of what her life once was, including a powder compact she brought with her when she fled her home in the Shati camp of Gaza City. The makeup is now caked and crumbling. She managed to keep hold of a small mirror through four different displacements over the past year. It’s broken into two shards that she holds together every so often to catch a glimpse of her reflection. “Previously, I had a wardrobe that contained everything I could wish for,” she said. “We used to go out for a walk every day, go to wedding parties, go to parks, to malls, to buy everything we wanted." Women “lost their being and everything in this war," she said. "Women used to take care of themselves before the war. Now everything is destroyed.” Associated Press writer Fatma Khaled in Cairo contributed to this report.
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Old geezer out for a spin An old man in Phetchabun denied being involved in a fatal hit-and-run when police tracked him down, despite compelling evidence including his blood-spattered car. In a later confession before reporters, Chanchai Thaimuangthong, 74, denied he tried to disguise a crime, and confessed he had hit people on the road before. Chanchai Thaimuangthong Mr Chanchai was driving his Honda Civic in a local soi in Chon Daen district at 10.30pm on Nov 16 when he hit a man on a bicycle at such speed the victim's body stuck to his windshield. His bicycle was found 500m away, reports said. The victim, Sawat Chomjib, 68, a forgetful type, was heading home on his bicycle and may have lost his way, relatives said from his funeral. Among injuries suffered by the victim were a broken left ankle, broken right shoulder, and crumpled head. In shocking scenes, CCTV images show Mr Chanchai calmly getting out of his vehicle and pushing the body off his shattered windshield before driving on. He did not seek help or report the accident. He left the body in front of a house, whose owner said he heard the Honda travelling at great speed before the collision occurred. On Nov 16, police tracked down Mr Chanchai to his home, after viewing CCTV vision in the area. However, he denied being the culprit. Police inspected his Honda Civic, parked outside the house with a drop cloth covering the vehicle. Pulling off the cloth, they found the bonnet badly crumpled, windscreen smashed, and the left side of the vehicle damaged. Human hair belonging to the victim was found embedded in the windshield, and blood on the left hand side. Stretching credibility, Mr Chanchai insisted he had been home that night and the vehicle was damaged in an accident a long time ago. He just hadn't taken it in for repairs. Police left him there but said they would return on Nov 19. When reporters from Channel 8 turned up at his house, he confessed to the hit-and-run but insisted he didn't mean to do it. "I was meaning to tell the police today but you turned up first," he told them, sounding irritated. TV presenters, while admitting the "doddery uncle" may have reacted in shock, were flabbergasted nonetheless. "Uncle! You have hit someone and taken a life. How can you just stand there and say such things? Were you asleep? Why didn't you alert anyone?" one asked. Recounting the events of that night, Mr Chanchai said he had just gone past a petrol station which was cloaked in darkness, and lowered his lights. "I hit the man on the bike almost straight away. I thought, damn, I've hit a motorcycle again," Mr Chanchai told reporters. "At first I thought the body was thrown into the air, but no. When I drove into the light I could see the body was stuck to the windshield, so I got out [and removed it]," he said. "Why didn't he have his tail light on?" he complained. The victim's sister told reporters Mr Chanchai had been involved in several fatal hit-and-run accidents before. Asked why he initially denied hitting the cyclist, Mr Chanchai said he had heard that suspects in legal cases, even big ones, are supposed to deny first and confess later. Asked why he did not visit the funeral to beg the victim's forgiveness, he said he had heard that Sawat's relatives were still angry. The victim's family had demanded he pay 500,000 baht in compensation including funeral costs. Mr Chanchai said if his compulsory vehicle insurance stretches that far, he'd pay. However, if it falls short he would rather go to jail, as he does not have that kind of money. No word was to hand on what charges he will face, or whether he will finally lose his driver's licence. 'Karma' pays a visit A fiery mother in Maha Sarakham stabbed her ex-husband's new girlfriend and fled with their young son after vowing on social media to get even with him. The house where the attack took place. Rojana (no surname given), 24, burst into her ex-husband's home in Muang district on Nov 18 and stabbed his new girlfriend, Pattama (no surname given), 31, in the arm with a box cutter, severing an artery. "She demanded to know what she was doing with her husband, and declared she was there to take him back," news reports said. Her husband, Surasak Riangchantha, was not present, though he said Rojana had warned him earlier on social media. "Prepare to pay for the things you have done to me," she said cryptically. The attack took place at Mr Surasak's home in front of his mother, Yuanjai, 56, who has looked after the couple's young son since shortly after his birth. After stabbing Pattama, Rojana grabbed her son and fled on a motorcycle driven by a man who accompanied her to the house. Mr Surasak said his ex-wife's behaviour was shocking as the couple had agreed previously that she pick up her son on Nov 19. She evidently did not want another woman looking after the boy, he said. When he and Rojana split up a few months ago, ending their 11-year relationship, he kept the son with his side of the family. Rojana's family comes from Nong Bua Lamphu. A relieved Ms Yuanjai said Rojana's relatives had called the day after the attack to say the little boy had turned up safely. However, when reporters visited Rojana's family home, relatives said they had not seen her, and she seldom visits. Ms Yuanjai suspects Rojana really fled with the child to Chon Buri, where her parents had moved for work. Rojana and Mr Surasak had also worked there together for a while. However, Mr Surasak said she was unhappy in Chon Buri and wanted to return to her home province. The pair ultimately parted ways. Both Rojana and he had since found new partners but she appeared to be jealous of Pattama, and also wanted her son back. Pattama, who was to undergo an operation to repair her severed artery, said she wanted police to pursue legal action against Rojana as far as it could go. Police were looking for her. Keep those ice bags handy A man in Buri Ram whose hand was cut off in a knife attack calmly put the severed limb in the basket in front of his motorcycle and drove to hospital for help. Athit, or Tao, is taken back to the house where he cut off Satit's hand. Satit (no surname given), 37, lost his hand when his daughter's boyfriend, who had been staying with them for two months, attacked him. Athit, or Tao (no surname given), 18, came at him with a large knife when he was lying on a hammock playing with his phone. He had just returned from working on the farm at his home in Lam Plai Mat district, said the victim's mother, Pranee, 62. "Tao, without saying a word, approached and stabbed him. My son held up hand to protect himself when it was cut off," she said. Satit calmly put the severed hand in a bag of ice and dropped it in front of his motorcycle before heading to a community hospital for help. They referred him to a base hospital, where doctors, commending Satit for keeping his head (if not his hand) amid the drama, were able to stitch it back on again. Tao and his girlfriend, "B", Satit's daughter, fled the house. Police later caught up with Tao in Kaeng Sanam Nang district of Nakhon Ratchasima, where he was arrested for causing serious bodily harm. Tao, who performed a crime reconstruction for police, refused to apologise to Satit, saying he nagged him daily for failing to pull his weight. Tao has no job and could not even bring himself to boil the rice or wash the dishes, Satit grumbled. His mother Pranee backed him up, admitting she and her son would often air their frustrations with Tao and Athit's daughter. Tao insisted he washed his own plate, but didn't clean the victim's. "I was there for just two months but it felt like two years because he abused me every day. He also asked B and me for money," he said. Pairat Suksaeng, 61, a neighbour of Tao's in his home province, said his parents broke up when he was young. "He's a quiet type, but hot tempered. He came at my son with a knife once, but he was able to get away in time," he said. The victim's wife, Amnuay Teepchan, 40, said doctors were able to re-attach the limb. She and Satit would often tell Tao to leave if he wasn't prepared to do more to help, she said. "A neighbour heard Tao tell B that he would leave for sure, but wanted to draw blood first," Ms Amnuay said. B, meanwhile, apologised for fleeing with Tao and failing to help her Dad. "It all happened so fast, and Tao grabbed my hand, dragging me to his bike," she said.Throughout the summer, Kendrick Lamar and Drake’s beef took center stage on social media as the rap titans dropped a slew of tracks dissing and saying the most heinous stuff about each other. However, it’s seemingly forgotten that Lamar dissed not only the Canadian superstar but also J. Cole. The North Carolina native responded with a diss track but quickly backed out. De-escalating beef is seemingly a trait of his, as he once did the same with Dennis Smith Jr. On the Run Your Race podcast, the Nets star revealed he too had issues with Cole. In high school, Smith, a massive fan of the rapper, began gaining some notoriety as a basketball prodigy in Fayetteville, the duo’s hometown. However, the two-time Grammy Award winner never reached out to the youngster, which prompted him to stop repping Cole’s record label, Dreamville. He said , Smith stopped wearing the Dreamville t-shirt and aired his grievances to James McMillan Jr., better known as Mal, a common friend of his and Cole’s, who found the ordeal amusing. He set up a meeting between the Smith and the rapper at a local skating park to help them settle their differences. Explaining what transpired, the guard said, After that conversation, their short-lived beef ended. Cole and Smith forged a friendship and are close to this day. The Nets star even paid homage to the rapper by wearing his Fayetteville Bulldogs high school jersey when he participated in the 2019 Slam Dunk Contest. Cole also shouted the guard out on 21 Savage’s “a lot”, where he had a featured verse. While the rapper and Smith are on good terms today, the same can’t be said about Smith and his former team, the Mavericks. When Dennis Smith Jr. called out his former teammates mid-game Late in the fourth quarter of a game between the Hornets and the Mavericks in March 2023, Smith, who was drafted by Dallas in 2017, hit a deep three-pointer against a former team to ice the game. The shot confined the Mavericks to a fourth-straight defeat and saw them drop to 36-39. Handing a massive blow to Dallas’ odds of earning a playoff berth wasn’t enough for Smith. After he hit the shot, he talked trash to the Mavericks bench, risking a scuffle. However, nobody reciprocated, as they were seemingly still in shock about losing for the fourth game running. When asked about the moment in his post-game press conference, the then-Hornets guard said, While J. Cole has a penchant for diffusing beef, Smith seemingly has it for picking them.
Ben Sheizaf Appointed as Board Member and Chairman of the Board Tel-Aviv, Israel, Nov. 25, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ellomay Capital Ltd. (NYSE American; TASE: ELLO) (“Ellomay” or the “Company”), a renewable energy and power generator and developer of renewable energy and power projects in Europe, Israel and the USA, announced today that Shlomo Nehama, after serving as chairman of the board for 16 years, has decided to resign from the Company’s Board of Directors. Mr. Nehama served on the Board of Directors and as the Company’s Chairman of the Board since March 2008 and is a controlling shareholder of the Company. In connection with Mr. Nehama’s resignation, the Company’s Board of Directors unanimously appointed Mr. Ben Sheizaf as a member of the Board of Directors and as Chairman of the Board. Mr. Sheizaf will serve as a director until the Company’s 2025 annual general meeting, at which he can be nominated for reappointment to the Company’s Board of Directors. Mr. Sheizaf, 67, is the founder and CEO of B.P.O. Ltd., a consulting firm since 2019, and has held many senior positions in the Israeli finance and insurance sectors. Mr. Sheizaf currently serves as a member of the board and chairman of the risk management committee of Isracard Ltd. (TASE: ISCD) and as chairman of the board of Detelix Software Technologies Ltd. Between 2008-2019 he held several positions in Phoenix Financial Ltd. (TASE: PHOE), including Deputy CEO and Head of the Long-Term Savings Division, CEO of The Phoenix Pension and Provident Fund Ltd. and a board member of other companies in the group, chairman of Excellence Provident Fund Ltd. and a member of the board of Excellence Investments Ltd. (between 2018-2019), and chairman of Shekel Insurance Agency (2008) Ltd. (between 2012-2015). Mr. Sheizaf holds a B.A. in Accounting and Economics from Tel Aviv University and completed a supplemental year of accounting studies. “Having served as chairman of the board for 16 years, it is time for me to step down. We have achieved extraordinary growth and expansion with an impressive geographical spread as well. I am proud of what we have accomplished. It is with great pleasure that I thank the shareholders for their trust in us, the board members, and management for their responsible and accurate implementation of our strategic plans. The future holds many opportunities for us. I am pleased to announce Benny Sheizaf’s appointment. I am confident that he will bring impressive knowledge and experience. This will help move the company forward to new heights. Needless to mention that if so requested or required I shall personally assist the board and the chairman in all aspects,” said Mr. Nehama. “It is my pleasure to thank Shlomo and the members of the board for their confidence in me. Together with Ellomay’s excellent team, I am confident that we will lead the company to significant and sustainable growth,” said Mr. Sheizaf, the incoming Chairman of the Board. About Ellomay Capital Ltd. Ellomay is an Israeli based company whose shares are listed on the NYSE American and the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange under the trading symbol “ELLO”. Since 2009, Ellomay Capital focuses its business in the renewable energy and power sectors in Europe, USA and Israel. To date, Ellomay has evaluated numerous opportunities and invested significant funds in the renewable, clean energy and natural resources industries in Israel, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and Texas, USA, including: For more information about Ellomay, visit http://www.ellomay.com . Information Relating to Forward-Looking Statements This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve substantial risks and uncertainties, including statements that are based on the current expectations and assumptions of the Company’s management. All statements, other than statements of historical facts, included in this press release regarding the Company’s plans and objectives, expectations and assumptions of management are forward-looking statements. The use of certain words, including the words “estimate,” “project,” “intend,” “expect,” “believe” and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The Company may not actually achieve the plans, intentions or expectations disclosed in the forward-looking statements and you should not place undue reliance on the Company’s forward-looking statements. Various important factors could cause actual results or events to differ materially from those that may be expressed or implied by the Company’s forward-looking statements, including changes in electricity prices and demand, continued war and hostilities in Israel, Gaza and Lebanon, regulatory changes, including extension of current or approval of new rules and regulations increasing the operating expenses of manufacturers of renewable energy in Spain, increases in interest rates and inflation, changes in the supply and prices of resources required for the operation of the Company’s facilities (such as waste and natural gas) and in the price of oil, the impact of continued military conflict between Russia and Ukraine, technical and other disruptions in the operations or construction of the power plants owned by the Company and general market, political and economic conditions in the countries in which the Company operates, including Israel, Spain, Italy and the United States. These and other risks and uncertainties associated with the Company’s business are described in greater detail in the filings the Company makes from time to time with Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Annual Report on Form 20-F. The forward-looking statements are made as of this date and the Company does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. Contact: Kalia Rubenbach (Weintraub) CFO Tel: +972 (3) 797-1111 Email: hilai@ellomay.comVance takes on a more visible transition role, working to boost Trump's most contentious picksAn average of 140 women and girls were killed by a partner or relative per day in 2023, the UN says