Haim Israel is a managing director in bank of America Merrill Lynch and the head of emerging Telecom research team. Haim and his team are consistently highly ranked in external surveys, placing 1st for two years running (2007-2009) in both the Institutional Investor Magazine and Thomson Extel surveys for Israeli Research. In 2012 Haim was ranked as the best emerging telecom analyst in the Thomson Extel survey. Mr. Israel attained his MBA from The Hebrew University, erusalem, and also holds a dual major in Finance & Business and overall has more than 15 years of experience in the capital market.