Note 16: - |
Employee Benefit Liabilities, NET
|
a. |
Post-employment benefits:
|
1. |
Defined contribution deposit:
|
2. |
Defined benefit plans:
|
3. |
Expenses recognized in comprehensive income (loss):
|
Year Ended
December 31,
|
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2017
|
2016
|
2015
|
||||||||||
In thousands
|
||||||||||||
Current service cost
|
$
|
356
|
$
|
359
|
$
|
391
|
||||||
Interest expenses, net
|
23
|
20
|
18
|
|||||||||
Current service cost (income) due to the transfer of real yield from the compensation component to the royalties' component in executive insurance policies before 2004
|
(7
|
)
|
5
|
(10
|
)
|
|||||||
Total employee benefit expenses
|
$
|
372
|
$
|
384
|
$
|
399
|
||||||
Actual (negative) return on plan assets
|
$
|
119
|
$
|
22
|
$
|
(12
|
)
|
Year Ended
December 31,
|
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2017
|
2016
|
2015
|
||||||||||
In thousands
|
||||||||||||
Cost of revenues
|
$
|
211
|
$
|
228
|
$
|
209
|
||||||
Research and development
|
57
|
62
|
90
|
|||||||||
Selling and marketing
|
16
|
13
|
18
|
|||||||||
General and administrative
|
88
|
81
|
82
|
|||||||||
$
|
372
|
$
|
384
|
$
|
399
|
4. |
The plan assets (liabilities), net:
|
December 31,
|
||||||||
2017
|
2016
|
|||||||
In thousands
|
||||||||
Defined benefit obligation
|
$
|
5,907
|
$
|
5,235
|
||||
Fair value of plan assets
|
4,763
|
4,513
|
||||||
Total liabilities, net
|
$
|
1,144
|
$
|
722
|
5. |
Changes in the present value of defined benefit obligation
|
2017
|
2016
|
|||||||
In thousands
|
||||||||
Balance at January 1,
|
$
|
5,235
|
$
|
5,425
|
||||
Interest costs
|
151
|
141
|
||||||
Current service cost
|
356
|
359
|
||||||
Benefits paid
|
(641
|
)
|
(650
|
)
|
||||
Demographic assumptions
|
(28
|
)
|
(17
|
)
|
||||
Financial assumptions
|
254
|
*
|
||||||
Past Experience
|
6
|
(104
|
)
|
|||||
Currency Exchange
|
574
|
81
|
||||||
Balance at December 31,
|
$
|
5,907
|
$
|
5,235
|
6. |
Plan assets
|
a) |
Plan assets
|
b) |
Changes in the fair value of plan assets
|
2017
|
2016
|
|||||||
In thousands
|
||||||||
Balance at January 1,
|
$
|
4,513
|
$
|
4,638
|
||||
Expected return
|
127
|
121
|
||||||
Contributions by employer
|
227
|
311
|
||||||
Benefits paid
|
(586
|
)
|
(522
|
)
|
||||
Demographic assumptions
|
1
|
1
|
||||||
Financial assumptions
|
1
|
-
|
||||||
Past Experience
|
(11
|
)
|
(100
|
)
|
||||
Current service cost due to the transfer of real yield from the compensation component to the royalties component in executive insurance policies before 2004
|
7
|
(5
|
)
|
|||||
Currency exchange
|
484
|
69
|
||||||
Balance at December 31,
|
$
|
4,763
|
$
|
4,513
|
7. |
The principal assumptions underlying the defined benefit plan
|
2017
|
2016
|
2015
|
||||||||||
%
|
||||||||||||
Discount rate of the plan liability
|
2.27
|
3.72
|
2.6
|
|||||||||
Future salary increases
|
4
|
4
|
4
|