Company: ZNOG
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001437749-25-009798
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Company: ZION OIL & GAS INC
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form: PRE 14A
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 telephone number provided on the Internet link on your Notice or on your proxy card [1-800-PROXIES (1-800-776-9437) in the United States and Canada or 1-201-299-4446 from other countries]. You will need to use the control number appearing on your Notice or proxy card to vote by telephone. You may transmit your voting instructions from any touch-tone telephone up until the closing of the polls during the Annual Meeting webinar around 9:00 A.M. CT on June 4, 2025. Telephone voting is available 24 hours a day. If you vote by telephone, you do NOT need to vote over the Internet or return a proxy card. |

| • | Vote by Mail. If you received a printed copy of the proxy card, you can vote by marking, dating and signing it, and returning it in the postage-paid envelope provided. Please promptly mail your proxy card to ensure that it is received prior to the closing of the polls at the Annual Meeting webinar. |

Notice & Access — Request Paper Copies:

Telephone: 888-Proxy-NA (888-776-9962); 201-299-6201 (for international callers)

E-MAIL: help@equiniti.com

WEBSITE: https://us.astfinancial.com/onlineproxyvoting/proxyvoting/requestmaterials

BOARD STRUCTURE AND RISK OVERSIGHT

Although we began trading on OTC Market on September 2, 2020 after being traded on the NASDAQ, we continue to be an SEC Reporting Company and maintain the required level of Board and Committee independence as require by the OTC Market Rules for U.S. Companies. In addition, we continue to maintain the independence requirement standards of NASDAQ. The Board of Directors has established guidelines requiring a majority of directors to be independent, as determined in accordance with the Bylaws of the Company and applicable rules of the NASDAQ and OTC Market. With thirteen members of our Board of Directors, as of December 31, 2024 eight (Paul Oroian, Virginia Prodan, Javier Mazón, Kent Siegel, Brad Dacus, Sarah Caygill, Gene Scammahorn and Pandji Putra) meet the criteria of independence set by the NASDAQ and OTC Market for membership on the board of a NASDAQ listed company (“NASDAQ independence criteria”) and trading on the OTC Market. Each of these eight directors have certified their belief that they met such independence standards. In addition,