Mr. Aharon Dovrat Appointed Chairman of the Board at B.O.S. - Better On-line Solutions Ltd

Business Wire, July 12, 2000

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TERADYON, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 12, 2000

Appointment of Mr. Dovrat and three additional members to the board

carried out following agreement signed in May of this Year

B.O.S. - Better On-line Solutions Ltd. (the "Company" or "BOS") (NASDAQ: BOSC) announced today that Mr. Aharon Dovrat, Mr. Aviram Wertheim, Dr. Hugo Chaufan, and Mr. Moti Weiss have joined its Board of Directors, and that Mr. Aharon Dovrat has been appointed as the Chairman of its Board of Directors.

Mr. Aharon Dovrat, 69, currently serves as Chairman of Dovrat & Company Ltd., an Israeli holding company; Isal Amlat Investments (1993) Ltd., an investment holding company (traded in the Tel Aviv Stock exchange (TASE); and Breezecom (NASDAQ: BRZE), a wireless telecommunication equipment technology company. Mr. Dovrat also serves as a director in ESC Medical (NASDAQ: ESCM), Tecnomatix Technologies (NASDAQ: TCNO), and Delta Galil (NYSE: DELT). From 1991 through 1999 he served as a Chairman of Dovrat, Shrem & Company Ltd., an investment and holding company (traded in TASE). From 1965 through 1991 Mr. Dovrat was the President & CEO of Clal (Israel) Ltd. (traded in TASE), and from 1958 through 1965, he served as Manager of the Israeli Investment Center in the Ministry of Trade and Industry.

Mr. Aviram Wertheim, 42, currently serves as Chairman of the United Mizrahi Bank Ltd. - an Israeli commercial bank (traded in TASE), and Alony Hetz Properties and Investments Ltd. He also serves as a director in additional ten companies. Since 1995 he has served as a manager of M. Wertheim Investments, and until 1994 he was a partner in the Israeli C.P.A. firm, Almagor & Co.

Dr. Hugo Chaufan, 56, currently serves as President and Board Member of Isal Amlat Investments (1993) Ltd. From 1984 through 1986, Dr. Chaufan served as V.P. Finance & Control of Israel Chemical Industries (traded in TASE), and from 1975 through 1984, he held various senior positions with the Israeli Finance Ministry.

Mr. Moti Weiss, 50, is the Managing Partner of Plenus Technologies, an Israeli based venture capital fund and a board member of Tecnomatix Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: TCNO). From 1995 through 1999 Mr. Weiss served as CFO and later COO of Sapiens International Corporation (NASDAQ SPNS), and from 1985 through 1995 served as CFO and later COO of Oshap Technologies Ltd.

"I am very happy to join such an interesting and challenging company as BOS, which is positioned at the leading edge of companies engaged in VoIP, remote LAN connectivity, IBM AS/400 emulation and computer networking," said Aharon Dovrat. "I am quite confident that together with my colleagues on the BOS Board of Directors and in BOS' management we will be able to stride towards new and better long term achievements," concluded Mr. Dovrat.

About BOS Better On-Line Solutions

BOS specializes in VoIP, telephony access solutions, and remote LAN connectivity. The Company also develops, produces and markets solutions for IBM mid-range-to-PC and LAN connectivity, including Internet/intranet, emulation gateways, and GUI, as well as printing solutions that are operating-system independent.

Pacific Information Systems, a fully owned subsidiary, is an award-winning commercial VAR and e-Commerce system solutions provider selling a wide range of network related products, and specializing in enterprise IT solutions.

Surf Communication Solutions, an affiliated company, develops and supplies software-based access solutions that are integrated into manufacturers' original equipment in the telecommunications, data communications, telephony and consumer electronics industries.

For more information, please contact Mr. Zvi Brandstein, VP Finance and CFO, at Tel. 972-4-9907-505, zvikab@boscom.com or Ms. Yael Gasko, Investor Relations & Human Resources Manager, at Tel. 972-4-9907-588, ygasko@boscom.com. BOS Website: http://www.bosweb.com.

The forward-looking statements contained herein reflect management's current views with respect to future events and financial performance. These forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause the actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements, all of which are difficult to predict and many of which are beyond the control of BOS, including, but not limited to, those risks and uncertainties detailed in BOS' periodic reports and registration statements filed with the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission.