Form 6K Report of Foreign Private Issuer


UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
 
Form 6-K
 
REPORT OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER
 
PURSUANT TO RULE 13a-16 OR 15d-16
OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
 
For the month of February 2007
 
Commission File Number: 0-30628
 
ALVARION LTD.
(Translation of registrant’s name into English)
 
21A Habarzel Street, Tel Aviv 69710, Israel
(Address of principal executive office)
 
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual reports under cover of Form 20-F or Form 40-F.
Form 20-F þ Form 40-F o
 
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The following are included in this report on Form 6-K:
 
 
 Exhibit
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Press release on ALVARION NAMES EFRAT MAKOV AS NEW CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER dated February 15, 2007
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SIGNATURES
 
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, thereunto duly authorized.
 

                        ALVARION LTD.


Date: February 18th, 2007                          By:  /s/ Dafna Gruber                    
                    Name: Dafna Gruber
                                                    Title:   CFO
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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EXHIBIT 1
Contacts
Dafna Gruber, CFO    Carmen Deville
+972 3 645 6252            +760-517-3188
+760-517-3187
dafna.gruber@alvarion.com   carmen.deville@alvarion.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
 
ALVARION NAMES EFRAT MAKOV AS NEW CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
 
Tel Aviv, Israel February 15, 2007— Alvarion Ltd. (NASDAQ: ALVR), the world’s leading provider of WiMAX and wireless broadband solutions, has named Efrat Makov as Chief Financial Officer effective April 1st. Dafna Gruber, Alvarion’s departing CFO, will remain with the Company during the transition period.
 
“We are delighted to welcome Efrat Makov, a seasoned executive with 16 years of financial and operational experience, to our senior management team,” said Tzvika Friedman, CEO of Alvarion. “We will benefit from her extensive background, which includes senior management positions at several publicly-traded technology companies. In addition, we are fortunate to have an executive with her leadership and management skills to head our excellent finance team.”
 
Ms. Makov has held management positions with three Israeli-based NASDAQ-listed companies, most recently as Chief Financial Officer at Aladdin Knowledge Systems Ltd. where she was responsible for the finance, operations, information systems and human resources functions. Previously, she served as Vice President of Finance at Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. and earlier as the Director of Finance for NUR Macroprinters Ltd.. Prior to that, Ms. Makov spent seven years in public accounting with Arthur Andersen in New York, London and Tel Aviv. Ms. Makov is a Certified Public Accountant in Israel and the United States and holds a B.A. in Accounting and Economics from Tel Aviv University.
 
About Alvarion
 
With more than 3 million units deployed in 150 countries, Alvarion (www.alvarion.com) is the world’s leading provider of innovative wireless broadband network solutions enabling Personal Broadband to improve lifestyles and productivity with portable and mobile data, VoIP, video and other services.
 
Leading the market with the most widely deployed WiMAX system in the world, Alvarion is leading the market to Open WiMAX solutions with the most extensive deployments and proven product portfolio in the industry covering the full range of frequency bands with both fixed and mobile solutions. Alvarion’s products enable the delivery of personal mobile broadband, business and residential broadband access, corporate VPNs, toll quality telephony, mobile base station feeding, hotspot coverage extension, community interconnection, public safety communications, and mobile voice and data.
 
 

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As a wireless broadband pioneer, Alvarion has been driving and delivering innovations for over 10 years from core technology developments to creating and promoting industry standards. Leveraging its key roles in the IEEE and HiperMAN standards committees and experience in deploying OFDM-based systems, the Company's prominent work in the WiMAX Forum is focused on increasing the widespread adoption of standards-based products in the wireless broadband market and leading the entire industry to Open WiMAX solutions.
 
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are based on the current expectations or beliefs of Alvarion’s management and are subject to a number of factors and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. The following factors, among others, could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements: the failure of the market for WIMAX products to develop as anticipated; Alvarion’s inability to capture market share in the expected growth of the WIMAX market as anticipated, due to, among other things, competitive reasons or failure to execute in our sales, marketing or manufacturing objectives; inability to further identify, develop and achieve success for new products, services and technologies; increased competition and its effect on pricing, spending, third-party relationships and revenues; as well as the inability to establish and maintain relationships with commerce, advertising, marketing, and technology providers and other risks detailed from time to time in the Company’s 20-F Annual Report Risk Factors section as well as in other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
 
Information set forth in this press release pertaining to third parties has not been independently verified by Alvarion and is based solely on publicly available information or on information provided to Alvarion by such third parties for inclusion in this press release. The web sites appearing in this press release are not and will not be included or incorporated by reference in any filing made by Alvarion with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which this press release will be a part of.
 
You may request Alvarion's future press releases or a complete Investor Kit by contacting Esther Loewy, Investor Relations: esther.loewy@alvarion.com or +972.3.767.4476.
 

 
 
 
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