−Removed: addition to the other information set forth under the heading “Risks to Our Business” in Part I, Item 2 of this report, you
−Removed: should carefully consider the factors discussed in Part I, Item 1A.
−Removed: “Risk Factors,” in the Company’s 2022 Annual Report
−Removed: as such factors could materially affect the Company’s business, financial condition, and future results.
−Removed: The risks described in
−Removed: the 2022 Annual Report are not the only risks that the Company faces.
−Removed: Additional risks and uncertainties not currently known to the Company,
−Removed: or that the Company currently deems to be immaterial, also may have a material adverse impact on the Company’s business, financial
−Removed: condition, or results of operations.
+Added: addition to the other information set forth under the heading “Risks to Our Business” in Part I, Item 2 of this report,
+Added: you should carefully consider the factors discussed in Part I, Item 1A.
+Added: “Risk Factors,” in the Company’s 2022
+Added: Annual Report as such factors could materially affect the Company’s business, financial condition, and future results.
+Added: risks described in the 2022 Annual Report are not the only risks that the Company faces.
+Added: Additional risks and uncertainties not
+Added: currently known to the Company, or that the Company currently deems to be immaterial, also may have a material adverse impact on the
+Added: Company’s business, financial condition, or results of operations.
+Added: There have been no material changes to the risk factors
+Added: identified in the Company’s 2022 Annual Report, other than set forth below:
+Added: have operations located in Israel, and therefore our results may be adversely affected by political, military and economic conditions
+Added: subsidiaries Powerfleet Israel and Pointer operate in Israel, and therefore our business and operations may be directly influenced by
+Added: the political, economic and military conditions affecting Israel at any given time.
+Added: A change in the security and political situation
+Added: in Israel could have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results and financial condition.
+Added: Since the establishment of
+Added: the State of Israel in 1948, a number of armed conflicts have taken place between Israel and its Arab neighbors, including Hezbollah
+Added: in Lebanon and Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
+Added: In the last several years, these conflicts have involved missile strikes against civilian targets
+Added: in various parts of Israel, particularly in southern Israel where Pointer’s main offices and manufacturing facility are located
+Added: and have negatively affected business conditions in Israel.
+Added: Most recently, on October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorists invaded southern Israel
+Added: and launched missile strikes in a widespread terrorist attack on Israel.
+Added: On the same day, the Israeli government declared that the country
+Added: was at war and the Israeli military began to call up reservists for active duty, including a number of our Israeli employees, including
+Added: members of the management team in Israel.
+Added: In addition, political uprisings and conflicts in various countries in the Middle East, including
+Added: Syria and Iraq, are affecting the political stability of those countries.
+Added: It is not clear how this instability will develop and how it
+Added: will affect the political and security situation in the Middle East.
+Added: none of our facilities were damaged in the October 7, 2023 attack, in the event that our facilities are damaged as a result of continued
+Added: or additional hostile action or continued or additional hostilities otherwise disrupt the ongoing operation of our facilities or the
+Added: airports and seaports on which we depend to import and export our supplies and products, our ability to manufacture and deliver products
+Added: to customers could be materially adversely affected.
+Added: Additionally, the operations of our Israeli suppliers and contractors may be disrupted
+Added: as a result of hostile action or hostilities, in which event our ability to deliver products to customers may be materially adversely
+Added: several countries, principally in the Middle East, restrict doing business with Israel and Israeli companies, and additional countries
+Added: may impose restrictions on doing business with Israel and Israeli companies if hostilities or political instability in the region continues
+Added: or intensifies.
+Added: These restrictions may limit materially our ability to obtain raw materials from these countries or sell our products
+Added: to companies in these countries.
+Added: Any hostilities involving Israel or the interruption or curtailment of trade between Israel and its
+Added: present trading partners could have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results and financial condition.
+Added: downturn in the Israeli economy may also have a significant impact on our business.
+Added: Israel’s economy has been subject to numerous
+Added: destabilizing factors, including a period of rampant inflation in the early to mid-1980’s, low foreign exchange reserves, fluctuations
+Added: in world commodity prices, military conflicts and civil unrest.
+Added: The revenues of certain of our products and services may be adversely
+Added: affected if fewer vehicles are used as a result of an economic downturn in Israel, an increase in use of mass transportation, an increase
+Added: in vehicle related taxes, an increase in the imputed value of vehicles provided as a part of employee compensation or other macroeconomic
+Added: changes affecting the use of vehicles.
+Added: In addition, our SVR services significantly depend on Israeli insurance companies mandating subscription
+Added: to a service such as the Company’s.
+Added: If Israeli insurance companies cease to require such subscriptions, our business could be significantly
+Added: adversely affected.
+Added: We also rely on the renewal and retention of several operating licenses issued by certain Israeli regulatory authorities.
+Added: Should such authorities fail to renew any of these licenses, suspend existing licenses, or require additional licenses, we may be forced
+Added: to suspend or cease certain services we provide.
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