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| Item 5.02 | Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers. |
On September 14, 2026, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of IR-Med, Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Yaniv Cohen, as interim Chief Effective Officer of the Company, effective as of September 14, 2026.
Mr. Cohen, age 46, co-founded IR. Med Ltd. in September 2013 and has served as the R&D manager. Following the completion of the acquisition of IR. Med Ltd he serves as the CSO. and was appointed to the Board. Mr. Cohen is an experienced electrical engineer with expertise in the fields of wave propagation and IR Spectroscopy for medical applications. Additionally, Mr. Cohen holds four patents in medical devices, has co-authored eight articles in scientific journals, and has spoken in conferences around the globe. From 2010 to 2013, Mr. Cohen served as R&D manager for PIMS, an Israeli medical device company, focusing on IR imaging and spectral analysis for non-invasive cancer assessment and identification. From 2008 to 2009, Mr. Cohen worked for Cisco as a system engineer. From 2006 to 2008, he worked as a service engineer for Intel Israel. Since 2022, Mr. Cohen holds a Ph.D of Sciences in the doctoral program, Informatics and Computer Engineering in the National Research University Higher School of Economics, School of Electronic Engineering Institute of Electronics and Mathematics (MIEM HSE) in Moscow, Russia. Mr. Cohen holds a M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Holon Institute of Technology (2007). From 2009 to 2010, he attended the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel where he wrote a thesis in wave prorogation.
Except as otherwise set forth herein, there is no arrangement or understanding between Mr. Cohen and any other person pursuant to which he was appointed as interim Chief Executive Officer and there are no transactions in which Mr. Cohen has an interest requiring disclosure under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.
In connection with Mr. Cohen’s appointment as Interim Chief Executive Officer, the Company has not entered into any new compensatory arrangements or agreements, nor have any amendments been made to existing compensatory arrangements with Mr. Cohen at this time. Mr. Cohen will continue to participate in the standard compensation programs available to the Company’s non-employee directors, if applicable, or as otherwise previously disclosed.
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Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| IR-Med, Inc. | ||
| By: | /s/ Sharon Levkoviz | |
| Name: | Sharon Levkoviz | |
| Title: | Chief Financial Officer | |
Date: September 15, 2026