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1998 Share Option Plan<br />

Under a share option plan established in 1998, we granted options to our employees which were held by a trustee under section 3(i) of the<br />

Israeli tax ordinance, or the Tax Ordinance, of which 2,145,000 were outstanding and exercisable as of December 31, 2007, at an exercise price of<br />

$0.497 per ordinary share and were non-transferable. The options granted thereunder expired in January 2008. There are no options available for grant<br />

under this plan.<br />

1999 Share Option Plan<br />

Under a share option plan established in 1999, we granted options to our employees which are held by a trustee under section 3(i) of the Tax<br />

Ordinance, of which 698,820 are outstanding and exercisable as of December 31, 2007, at an exercise price of $0.497 per ordinary share. The options<br />

are non-transferable.<br />

The option term is for a period of ten years from the grant date. If the options are not exercised and the shares not paid for by such date, all<br />

interests and rights of any grantee will expire. There are no options available for grant under this plan.<br />

2000 Share Option Plan<br />

Under a share option plan established in 2000, we granted options to our employees which are held by a trustee under section 3(i) of the Tax<br />

Ordinance, of which 669,800 are outstanding and exercisable as of December 31, 2007, at an exercise price of $1.10 per ordinary share. The options<br />

are non-transferable.<br />

The option term is for a period of ten years from grant date. If the options are not exercised and the shares not paid for by such date, all<br />

interests and rights of any grantee will expire. There are no options available for grant under this plan.<br />

2001 Share Option Plan<br />

Under a share option plan established in 2001, referred to as the 2001 Plan, we granted options during 2001-2007, at an exercise price<br />

between $0.106 and $0.931 per ordinary share. Up to 11,000,000 options were available to be granted under the 2001 Plan, of which 5,114,035 are<br />

outstanding. Options granted to Israeli employees were in accordance with section 102 of the Tax Ordinance, under the capital gains option set out in<br />

section 102(b)(2) of the ordinance. The options are non-transferable.<br />

The option term is for a period of ten years from the grant date. The options were granted for no consideration. The options vest over a four<br />

year period. As of December 31, 2007, 2,120,285 options are fully vested. As of December 31, 2007, the remaining number of options available for<br />

future grants under the 2001 Plan is 5,354,956.<br />

On January 15, 2008, we granted 4,615,300 options pursuant to the 2001 Plan to employees and consultants at an exercise price of $0.315 per<br />

ordinary share (a price equal to the closing price of our ADRs on the NASDAQ Stock Market on the grant date, divided by ten).<br />

Non-Plan Share Options<br />

In addition to the options granted under our share option plans, there are 20,540,000 outstanding options, and 7,351,114 exercisable options,<br />

as of December 31, 2007, which were granted to employees, directors and consultants not under an option plan during 1997-2007. The options were<br />

granted at an exercise price between $0.20 and $2.11 per ordinary share. The options expire between 2008 and 2017.<br />

This figure includes 9,250,000 and 2,000,000 options that were granted to our Chairman and Ben Zion Weiner, a non-executive director,<br />

respectively, at an exercise price equal to $0.36 and $0.354 per ordinary share, respectively, in December 2007 and August 2005, respectively, and are<br />

exercisable through July 31, 2010, and vest upon achievement of certain market capitalization based milestones (see “-Employment Agreements,”<br />

above).<br />

This figure also includes 7,000,000 options that were granted to our CEO, and are exercisable for a period of ten years from the date of<br />

issuance at an exercise price equal to $0.774 per ordinary share. Of these, 2,333,334 options vest over a three year period and the balance of options<br />

vest upon achievement of certain market capitalization based or working capital based milestones (see “-Employment Agreements above”).<br />

In addition, this figure also includes options granted to former consultants in conjunction with a licensing agreement, which was subsequently<br />

terminated in July 2007, to purchase a total of up to 150,000 of our ordinary shares at an exercise price per share of $0.20. These options expire on July<br />

12, 2008.<br />

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